Keith DeVries

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Keith Robert DeVries (born 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan; died July 16, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a prominent archaeologist and expert on the Phrygian city of Gordium.

As an excavator DeVries worked at Ischia and Corinth, although his primary work was at Gordium, where he directed the excavations from 1977 to 1987. Perhaps his most important contribution came in offering a new date for Gordium on the basis of dendrochronology; his work has shown that Gordium was destroyed already by 825 BC. (cf. Antiquity 2003).

DeVries earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he would teach for his career, as well as work at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Mediterranean section.

[edit] Works

• ed. From Athens to Gordion: the papers of a memorial symposium for Rodney S. Young, held at the University Museum, the third of May, 1975.

(Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1980).

[edit] References

• [Obituary] by Jeremy Pearce in The New York Times July 29, 2006.