Anna Curtenius Roosevelt

Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (born 1946) is an American archaeologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Curator of Archaeology at the Field Museum from 1991 to 2002.^[1]

She graduated with distinction from Stanford University, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. She is interested in human evolution and long-term human-environment interaction. She is one of the leading American archeologists, studying Paleoindians in the Amazon basin.^[2]

Family

She is the daughter of Quentin Roosevelt II, and Frances Blanche Webb,^[3] and granddaughter of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Her sisters are Susan Roosevelt Weld, and Alexandra Roosevelt Dworkin.^[4]

Awards

• 1988 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present, University of Arizona Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8165-1436-6
• The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas, Editors Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, James G. E. Smith, Museum of the American Indian, 1979, ISBN 978-0-934490-00-9
• Moundbuilders of the Amazon, Academic Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-12-595348-1
• Parmana: Manioc and Maize Subsistence along the Orinoco, Academic Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-12-595350-4
• The Excavations at Corozal, Venezuela: Stratigraphy and Ceramic Seriation, Dept. of Anthropology and The Peabody Museum, Yale University, 1997, ISBN 978-0-913516-17-1
• Ancient Lakes: Cultural and Biological Diversity, Editors Hiroya Kawanabe, George W. Coulter, Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, Kenobi Productions, 1999, ISBN 978-90-804341-2-7

References

External links

• UIC Anthropoly Faculty - Dr. Anna Roosevelt
• "Granddaughter: Roosevelt would say pollution is 'soiling our nest'", The University Record, Mary Jo Frank, October 29, 1996
• "Anna Curtenius Roosevelt", German Wikipedia