R. Brandon schrieb:
> Please pass this announcement onto any relevant mailing lists you might be
> on as Scotty's friends are interested in getting the word out to the rest of
> his old buddies.
>
> On Tuesday of this week Dr. Richard Stockton "Scotty" MacNeish died in a
> hospital in Belize City from complications resulting from an auto accident.
> Scotty had been on a working vacation driving between the sites of Lamanai
> and Caracol.  Driving fast, as was his typical pace, the car lost control on
> some loose gravel and crashed.  Fortunately British troops were nearby and
> were able to get Scotty and his traveling companion, long time friend and
> editor Jane Libby, removed from the wreckage and off to the hospital.  Jane
> tells me that the driver happened to be an archaeologist and that Scotty
> talked shop with him all the way to the hospital.  Sadly, four hours later,
> Scotty passed away due to complications from the accident.  Jane is
> recovering in a hospital in Miami, Florida.
>
> Everyone I have talked to so far has agreed, with the exception of actually
> being able to die on an archaeology site, this is the way Scotty would have
> wanted it: Away in the rainforest, between visiting two great sites, talking
> shop, and reflecting on the cold Belikin beers he had the night before.
> About the only thing different about this I could imagine is that he would
> have preferred a bit more sporty of a car than a rental.
>
> Scotty's body will be cremated in Belize and flown to his home in Andover
> Massachusetts.
>
> A bit about Scotty.
>
> Scotty, as one friend put it best, was a hell of a character.  I have even
> had the pleasure to have worked with Scotty's original crew boss, Roger
> Willis, who supervised Scotty during the WPA days at the Kincaid site in
> Illinois when Scotty was a young buck at Chicago.  Even then Roger tells me,
> Scotty was quite the character having been a golden gloves champion in his
> youth, and heavily into listening to the blues on the south side of Chicago.
> But what most of us remember Scotty for is his pioneering work on the
> origins of corn in Mexico in the 1950's.  There is however plenty of
> information about Scotty on the web for which I have added a few links
> below. So I would just like to say a few words myself.
>
> The bottom line about Scotty was he was a good man.  He was known as many
> things: a story teller, an agitator, a flirt, a lover of good bourbon and
> Bohemia beer, a man who had the most important trait a archaeologists can
> hope for, passion for his profession.  It does not matter if you agree with
> all of his interpretations of his research - disagreement is the nature of
> our profession.  What matters is that Scotty was a good person.  And yes you
> will hear your bosses and professors tell stories about Scotty - some wilder
> and harder to believe than others, but unless they are first hand stories -
> and so few of them are it seems, take them with a grain of salt.  I am sure
> though that Scotty regrets not having got to meet each of you personally -
> as that was one of his true loves was, meeting younger archaeologists and
> telling them stories about the old days.  I was never at a conference where
> Scotty and I crossed paths that he did not make the time to take the groups
> I was with to the bar to regale them with first hand stories of field work
> throughout the century.  At the age of 82, and after nearly 6,000 days in
> the field - Scotty has become part of what he had always loved, the
> archaeological record.
>
> So folks, the only thing I ask of you all is the next time you are in the
> bar with your archaeology buddies or taking lunch in the field, have a
> moment of silence among yourselves - reflect on the fact that this man who
> was born in 1918 and who died in 2001... was still doing archaeology, then
> make a toast to his memory.  Scotty would have liked that.
>
>
> There a few photos of Scotty at the new Shovelbum's section called "The
> Ossuary".  If you have any personal anecdotes that you would like to share
> on this page feel free to pass them on to me.
>
> http://ossuary.shovelbums.org/
>
> I found several good articles about Scotty online at:
>
> By Bill Brown -
>
> http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0599toc/5profile1-macneish.shtml
>
> and
>
> http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/information/biography/klmno/macneish_richard.html
> (text below)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From -
> http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/information/biography/klmno/macneish_richard.html
>
> Richard Stockton MacNeish
>
>
> 1918 -
>
> As Director of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology in Andover,
> Massachusetts, Dr. MacNeish has contributed to the art of gathering and
> printing archaeological information. He was and is known as Scotty by his
> colleagues and friends. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
> in 1949.
> According to Dr. MacNeish, in his forty year career as an archaeologist, he
> has spent 5,683 days digging in the field. The most well renowned of his
> numerous books and 170 plus articles are his five volumes of writings on the
> findings in the Valley of Mexico. These findings were on the prehistory of
> the Tehuacan Valley in south-central Mexico. Many archaeological awards and
> medals have been bestowed upon Dr. MacNeish, no doubt as a result of his
> dedication to the field.
> He was the recipient of the Kidder Award. This award meant a great deal to
> MacNeish for he and Mr. Kidder were close personnel friends before Kidder
> passed away. He also received the Verrill and Drexel Medals from
> Pennsylvania and Yale Universities, respectively. He received the
> Cornplanter and Spinden Medals and in 1974, McMaster University selected him
> to be the Whidden Lecturer.
> Along with his many fine works in both anthropology and archaeology, he also
> was quite a boxer in his younger years in New York. Richard Stockton
> MacNeish was the Golden Glove Boxing Champion of Binghamton in 1938. He will
> continue to help and teach the people of today with the dedication he fought
> so earnestly for throughout his entire life.
> MacNeish was a New World archaeologist whose primary focus was the
> transition from hunting/gathering subsistence base to sedentary, agriculture
> based culture in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. MacNeish found that the
> primary agricultural species in the Tehuacan Valley was corn which had been
> domesticated before 3000 B.C.
>
> References:
>
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>
>
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>
>
> 1918 -
>
>
>
> As Director of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology in Andover,
> Massachusetts, Dr. MacNeish has contributed to the art of gathering and
> printing archaeological information. He was and is known as Scotty by his
> colleagues and friends. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
> in 1949.
>
> According to Dr. MacNeish, in his forty year career as an archaeologist, he
> has spent 5,683 days digging in the field. The most well renowned of his
> numerous books and 170 plus articles are his five volumes of writings on the
> findings in the Valley of Mexico. These findings were on the prehistory of
> the Tehuacan Valley in south-central Mexico. Many archaeological awards and
> medals have been bestowed upon Dr. MacNeish, no doubt as a result of his
> dedication to the field.
>
> He was the recipient of the Kidder Award. This award meant a great deal to
> MacNeish for he and Mr. Kidder were close personnel friends before Kidder
> passed away. He also received the Verrill and Drexel Medals from
> Pennsylvania and Yale Universities, respectively. He received the
> Cornplanter and Spinden Medals and in 1974, McMaster University selected him
> to be the Whidden Lecturer.
>
> Along with his many fine works in both anthropology and archaeology, he also
> was quite a boxer in his younger years in New York. Richard Stockton
> MacNeish was the Golden Glove Boxing Champion of Binghamton in 1938. He will
> continue to help and teach the people of today with the dedication he fought
> so earnestly for throughout his entire life.
>
> MacNeish was a New World archaeologist whose primary focus was the
> transition from hunting/gathering subsistence base to sedentary, agriculture
> based culture in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. MacNeish found that the
> primary agricultural species in the Tehuacan Valley was corn which had been
> domesticated before 3000 B.C.
>
> References:
>
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