Dee Ann Story
Dee Ann Story | |
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| Born | 12 December 1931  Houston |
| Died | 26 December 2010 (aged 79) Wimberley |
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| Occupation | Archaeologist |
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Dee Ann Story (née Suhm; December 12, 1931 – December 26, 2010) was an American archaeologist. Story lived in Wimberley, Texas, and was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] Story's best-known excavations were the George C. Davis and Deshazo sites.[2] Story's work with Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, took place in the 1960s and 1970s and pinpointed the timeline of the area.[3] She brought more advanced techniques to the dig, such as radiocarbon dating.[4] Story was also the first woman hired to work as a professional archaeologist for the state of Texas.
Biography
[edit]Story was born in Houston on December 12, 1931.[5] Story developed a love of nature as a child.[6] She attended Texas Women's University and then finished her bachelor's degree in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1953.[5] In 1956, she finished her master's degree at UT Austin.[5] Story attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where she earned her PhD in 1963.[5] She was one of the first women to earn an anthropology PhD from the University.[7]
She died on December 26, 2010, after a "lengthy battle with cancer."[8]
Career
[edit]Story's early work in archaeology began as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin where she sorted and organized artifacts uncovered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).[7] While she was working towards her PhD, she became involved with the Glen Canyon Archaeological Project and worked with Jesse Jennings.[5] She was the only woman on an all-male field crew in Glen Canyon and was hired because of her extensive prior field experience.[7] She also ran the archaeological lab at the University of Utah to analyze the artifacts found in Glen Canyon.[7]
Story became Texas' first professional woman archaeologist when she was hired in 1962 as the assistant director of the Texas Archeological Salvage Project.[9] From 1963 to 1987, she served as the director of the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL), which is a research unit at the University of Texas at Austin.[10] In 1965, she was hired as a full professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[9]
Story started working at the George C. Davis site in 1968.[9] She had previous experience with Caddo artifacts, having found some while cataloging the WPA collection.[9] Story not only worked with Caddo history, but she was also interested in working with contemporary Caddo people.[9]
In 1987, she became a professor emeritus.[5]
Story was awarded the Curtis D. Tunnell Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Archeological Society.[8]
Story donated all of her grey-literature to the library at the Center for Archaeological Studies on the Texas State University campus prior to her death in 2010.[11]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ "Scientists Seek Clues From Caddo Burial Ground". The Paris News. 31 May 1995. Retrieved 12 October 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Guevara, Emily (11 February 2011). "East Texas Archeological Conference Set Saturday". Tyler Morning Telegraph. Retrieved 12 October 2016 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ Burkett, Deborah (7 April 2015). "The Caddo Will Rise, Thanks to 'Friends'". Jacksonville Progress. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ Goolsby, Dana (8 November 2010). "Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Caddo Indian Culture Day". Texas Escapes. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Shafer 2011, p. 13.
- ^ Ohlson 2011, p. 40.
- ^ a b c d Ohlson 2011, p. 41.
- ^ a b "Dee Ann Story". Austin American-Statesman. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2016 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ a b c d e Ohlson 2011, p. 42.
- ^ Story, Dee Ann (15 June 2010). "Texas Archeological Research Laboratory". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Dee Ann Story Memorial Reports Library". Center for Archaeological Studies. Texas State University. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
Sources
[edit]- Ohlson, Kristin (2011). "The Dean of Texas Archaeology" (PDF). American Archaeology: 39–43.
- Shafer, Harry (2011). "Dee Ann Story" (PDF). Texas Archeology. 55 (2): 12–15.
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- People from Houston
- University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
- University of Texas at Austin faculty
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- American women anthropologists
- American archaeologists
- Deaths from cancer in Texas
- People from Wimberley, Texas
- American women archaeologists
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women