| 词条 | Rodney Young (archaeologist) |
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| name = Rodney Stuart Young | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|08|01}} | birth_place = Bernardsville, New Jersey | nationality = American | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|10|25|1907|08|01}} | death_place = Chester Springs, Pennsylvania | other_names = | occupation = Near Eastern archaeologist | known_for = Gordion | alma_mater = Princeton University (Ph.D., 1940) }}Rodney Stuart Young (born August 1, 1907, in Bernardsville, New Jersey, – died October 25, 1974, in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania) was an American Near Eastern archaeologist.[1] He is known for his excavation of the city of Gordium, capital of the ancient Phrygians and associated with the legendary king, Midas.[2] Young received an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University in 1929, and then an M.A. from Columbia University in 1932, written under the direction of William Dinsmoor, Sr.[1] In 1940 Young earned his Ph.D. in classics and archaeology from Princeton University. He had excavated in the agora at Athens before becoming Curator of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950, where he helped to build the graduate program known today as the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. At the same juncture, Young began a series of new excavations at Gordium and continued as director until his untimely death in 1974. His major work on Phrygian tumuli - including the famed "Midas Mound" or Tumulus MM was published posthumously.[3] After his death the leadership of the excavations eventually passed to his student, G. Kenneth Sams, now Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During World War II, Young volunteered in Greece as an ambulance driver, and was wounded on the Epirus front. He received a Bronze Star from the United States and the Croix de Guerre from Greece for his service.[4] Young was active in his field, serving as president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1968 to 1972 and was Charles Elliot Norton Lecturer in 1968/1969. His professional interests concentrated on Greek and Phrygian archaeology, art, and history, the Early Iron Age, and early writing. Young died in an automobile accident near his home in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.[1] Bibliography
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=Keith DeVries|title=From Athens to Gordion: The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dL3zf0Wkx80C&pg=PR15|date=1 January 1980|publisher=UPenn Museum of Archaeology|isbn=978-0-934718-35-6|pages=15–}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Rodney}}2. ^Obituary in American Journal of Archaeology volume 79 (1975) 3. ^{{cite book|author=Rodney Stuart Young|title=Three Great Early Tumuli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLlNyEn3l-QC&pg=PR37|year=1981|publisher=UPenn Museum of Archaeology|isbn=978-0-934718-39-4|pages=37–}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Nancy Thomson de Grummond|title=Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LeE4CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1207|date=11 May 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26854-2|pages=1207–}} 5 : 1907 births|1974 deaths|American archaeologists|University of Pennsylvania faculty|Road incident deaths in Pennsylvania |
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