"Plant geography and culture history in the American Southwest." (Sauer)

b. 6 April 1912, San Diego, California. m. Alberta; ch. George, Jr., Robert, Anne.

A.B. University of California, Berkeley (Anthropology) 1934.

Texas A and M Univ. (since 1967). Distinguished Professor of Geography, Emeritus.

San Diego State College 1937-38, 1940-41; Johns Hopkins Univ. 1943-67, Chairman 1944-58.

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1953; San Diego State College Alumni Meritorious Service Award 1958; Assoc. Amer. Geogr. Award for Meritorious Contribution, 1958; American Legion Citation for Meritorious Service, Dept. of Maryland, 1961; Faculty Distinguished Lecturer, Texas A&M, 1970; Distinguished Teacher Award, Texas A&M, 1972; Sauer Memorial Lecture, UC Berkeley, 1981.

Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest. New York: Viking Fund Publ. in Anthropology, No. 5, 140 pp., 1945. (Reprinted by Johnson Reprint Co., 1964.)

Pleistocene Man at San Diego, California. Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 400 pp., 1957.

Man and the Land. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 532 pp., 1964. (2nd edition, revised, 1969.)

It's Earlier Than You Think. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1981.

"Lima bean farming and soil erosion in the Encinitas area." Yearbook Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 4:15-20, 1938.

"Archaeological notes on a midden at Point Sal." American Antiquity, 6: 214-226, 1941.

"A preliminary survey of maize in the southwestern United States." (with Edgar Anderson) Annals, Missouri Botanical Garden, No. 32:297-322, 1945.

"Some archaeologic cucurbit seed from Peru." Acta Americana, 3:163-172, 1945.

"The role of plants in geography." Geogr. Review, 36:121-131, 1946.

"Critical notes on the origin and domestication of the cultivated species of cucurbita." (with T.W. Whitaker) American Journal of Botany, 33:10-15, 1946.

"Origins of American Indian agriculture." American Anthropologist, 48:1-21, 1946.

"Malaria and rainfall periodicity in Palestine." (with Erwin H. Ackerknecht) Science, 103:342-344, 1946.

"Some Hopi Indian food herbs." The Herbalist, No. 12, pp. 32-36, 1946.

"The distribution of races of maize among the Indians of the Mississippi Valley." Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Ser. II, 9:268-269, 1947.

"A California account of uses of medical herbs." Western Folklore, 6:199-203, 1947.

"Sweet corn among the Indians." Geogr. Review, 38:206-221, 1948.

"Geographie des plantes geographie humaine et ethnologie en Amerique du Nord." La Revue de Geographie Humaine et d'Ethnologie, 2:5-16, 1948.

"Clark Wissler, 1870-1947." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 28:145-146, 1948.

"Historic implications of chromosome distributions of North American Indian maize." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 5:199-207, 1948.

"Evidence for Pleistocene Man in Southern California." Geogr. Review, 40:84-102, 1950.

"Ecology-Geography-Ethnobotany." Scientific Monthly, 70(2):73-80, 1950.

"Plant evidence for early contacts with America." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 6:161-182, 1950.

"Isaiah Bowman, 1878-1950." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 40:335-350, 1950.

"An early American description probably referring to Phaseolus Lunatus." Chronica Botanica, 12:155-160, 1951. (Biologia 2, 1950-51)

"Man in America: a criticism of scientific thought." Scientific Monthly, 73:297-307, 1951.

"A study of soils and land forms of the Chesapeake Bay margins." (with V. P. Sokoloff) Office of Naval Research, 37 pp., 1951.

"Time and trace metals in archaeological sites." with V.P. Sokoloff) Science, 116:1-5, 1952.

"Report on a preliminary study of the twenty-five foot terrace in Maryland." (with Robert E. Breitenbach) Progress Report 4, Soils, Terraces and Time in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Office of Naval Research, 5 pp., 1952.

"Oceanic drift of gourds." (with Charles H.A. Seitz) Progress Report 5, Soils, Terraces and Time in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 5 pp., 1952.

"Interglacial artifacts from the San Diego area." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 8:444-456, 1952.

"Radiocarbon dating." Geogr. Review, 43:121-124, 1953.

"Plants across the Pacific." American Antiquity (Memoirs), 18(3, pt. 2): 62-71, 1953.

"Humisol." (with V.P. Sokoloff) Review of the Geographical Institute of the University of Istanbul, 1:1-16, Turkey, International Edition, 1954.

"Disharmony between Asiatic flower-birds and American bird-flowers." American Antiquity, 20:176-177, 1954.

"An interglacial site at San Diego, California." The Masterkey, 28:165-176, 1954.

"Oceanic drift of gourds—experimental observations." (with T.W. Whitaker) American Journal of Botany, 41:697-700, 1954.

"On submarine archaeology about San Diego." The Masterkey, 29:21-27, 1955.

"The humid soil: process and time." (with R.L. Pendleton) Geogr. Review, 46:488-507, 1956.

"Soil color and time." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 12:295-324, 1956.

"American civilization puzzle." Johns Hopkins Magazine, 8:9-24, 1957. (Separately distributed by U.S. Information Service.)

"Mystery of Indian civilization." Science Digest, 41(5):9-24, 1957.

"Who came from where and how." American Mercury, 86(413):56-63, 1958.

"Archaeology in the Reno area in relation to age of man and the culture sequence in America." American Philosophical Society, 102:174-192, 1958.

"Is there an American Lower Paleolithic?" Miscellanea Paul Rivet Octogenario Dicata, 1:227-243, XXXI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1958.

"Isaiah Bowman, a biographical memoir." (with John K. Wright) National Academy of Sciences, Columbia University Press, reprinted from Biographic Memoirs, 33:29-64, 1959.

"A note on the longevity of seed of Lagenaria Siceraria (Mol.) Standl. after floating in sea water." (with T.W. Whitaker) Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 88:104-106, 1961.

"There is no white race." (Reproduced from The Sign.) Negro Digest, pp. 57-63, September, 1961.

Editor of Robert L. Pendleton's Thailand. (Amer. Geographical Soc. Handbook) New York: Duel Sloan and Pearce, 1962.

"The balsa." Yachting, pp. 41 ff., December, 1962.

"Maize into Africa." Anthro. Jour. of Canada, 1(2):3-8, lg63.

"Movement of people and ideas across the Pacific." In Plants and the Migrations of Pacific Peoples: A Symposium, 10th Pac. Sci. Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, l961. Bishop Museum Press, 1963.

"Some thoughts on coastal archaeology." Quarterly Bulletin, Archaeological Soc. of Virginia, 18(3):46-55, 1964.

"California as an lsland." The Masterkey, 38:74-78, 1964.

"Stone circles in the deserts." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 2(3): 2-6, 1964.

"The American civilization puzzle." In J.W. Archer and J. Schwartz, Exposition. McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1966.

"A cross check on the dating of Lake Mojave artifacts." The Masterkey, 41:26-33, 1967.

"Artifacts and naturfacts: introduction." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 5(1):2-5, 1967.

"A warm interstadial in the Wisconsin." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 5(2):10-12, 1967.

"Some parallels between Japanese and American stonework." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 5(3): 25-26, 1967.

"A lithic industry from Central Texas." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 6(4):2-6, 1968.

"Pre-Columbian chickens in Mexico." In C.L. Riley, J.C. Kelley, C.W. Pennington, R.L. Rands (eds.), Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre- Columbian Contacts. Austin and London: Univ. of Texas Press, pp. 78-218, 1971.

"A case for pre-Columbian chickens in America." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 9(3):2-5, 1971.

"Early man in America." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 10(3):2-9, 1972.

"A parallel to the Kensington rune stone finding." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 11(2):18-19, 1973.

"New evidence for the antiquity of man in North America deduced from aspartic acid racemization." (with Jeffrey L. Bada and Roy A. Schroeder), Science, 184(4138):791-793, May, 1974.

"Domesticates as artifacts." In Miles Richardson (ed.), The Human Mirror Material and Spatial Images of Man, pp. 201-230, L.S.U. Press, 1974.

"Egyptian gold seekers and exploration in the Pacific." The Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications, 2(27):2-5, February, 1975.

"The chicken in America." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 13(1):25-26, 1975.

"Personal recollections of Harold S. Gladwin." Occasional Papers, The Epigraphic Society (Papers in honor of Harold S. Gladwin), 2(25):2-5, 1975.

"Some comments on the Egyptians in the Indo-Pacific region." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 13(2):6-11, 1975.

"Why I am no longer a 'standard Americanist.'" Anthropological Journal of Canada, 13(4):2-8, l975.

"Chinese contacts with America: Fu Sang again." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 14(1):10-24, 1976.

"Voting in science: early man in the New World." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 14(2):28-30, 1976.

"A epigraphic geography or 'Kilroy (amongst others) was here.'" The Geographical Bulletin, 12:6-23, May, 1976.

"Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture." The New Diffusionist 23(6):50-57, 1976.

"Pre-Columbian sellos: another artifact showing possible cultural contact and trans-Pacific diffusion." (with Sol Heinemann) Anthropological Journal of Canada, 15(3):2-6, 1977.

"Some notes on Zuni, 1977." The Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications, 4(95, pt 2):1-7, 1977.

"Commentary in archaeology and geochronology of the Susquehanna and Schoharie regions." Proceedings, Yager Conference at Hartwick College, John R. Cole and L.R. Godfey (eds.). Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, 1977, pp. 15, 30, 124-127, 1977.

"A hypothesis suggesting a single origin of agriculture." "The Metate: an early grain-grinding implement in the New World." In C.A. Reed (ed.), Origins of Agriculture. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 89-133 and 693-712, 1977.

"Fu-Sang: China discovers America." The Oceanic Society, 11(3):8-12, 1978.

"Reflections on the ancient Vermont conference." "Comment on Fell address." "Medea Interview." In Notes on Ancient Vermont. Castleton, Vermont: Castleton State College, pp. 130-132, 85, 118-120, l978.

"Megalithic man in America?" Stonehenge Viewpoint, pp. 3-5, January-February, l979.

"Did China discover America?" Eastern Review, 4(4):74-76, 1979.

"Context as Methodology." Diffusion and Migration: Their Roles in Cultural Development. Proceedings of Tenth Annual Conf., Archaeological Assoc. of University of Calgary, pp. 55-64, 1979.

"Mexican sellos: writing in America, or the growth of an idea." Diffusion and Migration: Their Role in Cultural Development. Proceedings of Tenth Annual Conf. Archaeological Assoc. of Univ. of Calgary, pp. 186-201, 1979.

"Geomorphology and Time." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 17(3). (with Kenneth L. White and W. Morlin Childers) 1979.

"Time estimates for early man in America." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 17(4):23-24, 1979.

"An American lower Paleolithic." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 17(1): 2-37, 1979.

"Saga America." In Historical Diffusionism, 31:31-58, 1981.

"On Pre-Columbian discoveries of America." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 19:10-17, 1981.

"Questions: L'Anse aux Meadows radio carbon dates." Anthropological Journal of Canada, 20(2):5-7, 1982.

"The Calico site: early humans in America." Anthroquest, The L.S.B. Leakey Foundation News, No. 26, 1983.