Charles H. Fairbanks

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Charles Fairbanks (1913 in Bainbridge, New York) was an archaeologist/anthropologist and published many books including “The Funeral Mound,” “The Occurrence of Coiled Pottery in New York,” and “The Plantation Archaeology of the Southeast Coast.” He has done archaeology at the Okmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia where he developed rigorous, painstaking field methodology. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945. Later he became the superintendent at Fort Frederica National Monument and was eventually a professor at Florida State University. He also worked on the Tennessee Valley authority archaeology projects during his college years in 1937 and 1938. He graduated in 1939. He went on to the University of Michigan graduate school. Charles Herron Fairbanks died in 1984.

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• Georgia Archaeology Who's Who