Citizenship United States Role Jr. Name Crawford Greenewalt, | Known for Archaeology at Sardis Fields Classical archaeology | |
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Born June 3, 1937
Wilmington, Delaware ( 1937-06-03 ) Institutions University of California, Berkeley Alma mater B.A. Harvard University (1959)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1966) Thesis Lydian Pottery of the Sixth-century B.C.: The Lydion and Marbled Ware (1966) Died May 4, 2012, Hockessin, Delaware, United States Education University of Pennsylvania Residence Berkeley, California, United States Books Ritual Dinners in Early Historic Sardis | ||
Doctoral students Nicholas Cahill | ||
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (June 3, 1937 – May 4, 2012) was a classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis.
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Personal life
Greenewalt was the son of Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a chemical engineer and later president of the DuPont, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt. He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick. He attended the Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from Harvard in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. Greenwalt died of a brain tumor in 2012.
Archaeology
Greenewalt first showed in interest in archaeology at age eight. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Greenewalt worked at the Sardis excavation, where he became known for his ability to crawl through the narrow tunnels constructed by earlier tomb robbers. After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer. Greenewalt's Ph.D. thesis was on the Lydian pottery, like those recovered at the Sardis excavation. Greenewalt worked on the Sardis excavation every summer from 1959 to 2011. In 1976 he was made the field director of the excavation, a position he held until 2007 when he turned it over to Nicholas Cahill.
Awards and honors
Greenewalt was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member the German Archaeological Institute and Austrian Archaeological Institute. In 1993 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society for his paper When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed and for his work on reconstructing the history of Lydia. In 2012 he was awarded Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology for his work at Sardis.
The research library of archaeology at Ege University, Izmir, to which Greenewalt had left his private library, was named "Greenewalt Library" in 2015.