George Grant MacCurdy


George Grant MacCurdy, A.M., Ph.D. was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard ; then studied in Europe at Vienna, Paris, and at Berlin. He was employed at Yale from 1902 onward as instructor, lecturer, curator of the anthropological collections, and assistant professor of archaeology after 1910. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

European hypothesis

MacCurdy argued for Europe as the origin of the first humans, in his 1924 book Human Origins, he said: “The beginnings of things human, so far as we have been able to discover them, have their fullest exemplification in Europe”.

Works

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