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Robert John Braidwood
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- Hailed as one of the founders of scientific archaeology, Robert Braidwood (1907–2003) is credited with a multitude of discoveries and novel research methods, including the use of interdisciplinary teams to study the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an agriculture-based civilization. Through a series of important excavations in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, Braidwood and his colleagues discovered evidence of the earliest signs of food production, metallurgy, and architecture. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Braidwood, Robert John (1907–2003)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Robert_John_Braidwood
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