University of Virginia Library

Michigan University Professor
To Talk On Fancy Archaeology

"Fancy Archaeology" will be
the subject of a lecture by James
Bennett Griffin before the Charlottesville
chapter of the Archaeological
Institute of America
tonight at 8:30 in the South Meeting
Room of Newcomb Hall.

Mr. Griffin, director and curator
of archaeology at the University
of Michigan's Museum of
Anthropology, has excavated extensively
in the United States and
Mexico, and has made several
studies of northern Eurasian
prehistory.

He helped to establish the
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory
at the University of Michigan,
and is currently involved in a
neutron activation analysis of
archaeological materials.

Recipient of the Viking Fund
Medal for outstanding work in
archaeology, Mr. Griffin has
served as president of both the
Society for American Archaeology
and the anthropology committee
of the Pan-American Institute
of Geography and History.