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Robert Dunnell
American archaeologist (1942-2010)
This article is about the American archaeologist.
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For Sir Robert Francis Dunnell, the British lawyer, railway executive and civil servant, see Francis Dunnell.
Robert Chester Dunnell (December 4, 1942 – December 13, 2010[1]) was an archaeologist known for his contribution in archaeological systematics,[2][3] measurement and explanation of the archaeological record,[4][5][6]evolutionary archaeology,[7] and the archaeology of eastern North America.[8] Dunnell received his PhD from Yale University in 1967.
He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington until his retirement in 1996 after which he was emeritus at the University of Washington as well as Mississippi State University.
Among Dunnell's contribution to archaeology was the recognition of the role the theory of biological evolution as a means of explaining cultural phenome