page_title: Junius Bird
hierarchical_section_title: Junius Bird
caption_attribution_description: Title: A brief expedition into science at the American Museum of Natural History Identifier: briefexpeditioni00amer Year: 1969 (1960s) Authors: American Museum of Natural History Subjects: American Museum of Natural History; Naturalists; Natural history; Anthropology; Natural history museum curators Publisher: &#x5b;New York?&#160;: The Museum?&#x5d; Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: Junius B. Bird Curator of South American Archeology, Department of Anthropology Joined the Museum Staff in 1934 Residence: The Bronx Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Junius Bouton Bird, born in Rye, New York, was an American archaeologist who was appointed curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1934. His contributions to the study of ecology, climate, and pre-Columbian archaeology earned him several awards including: The Viking Fund Medal for Archaeology and The Order of "El sol de Peru". In 1961 he was elected as the president of the Society for American Archaeology. He studied at Columbia College and was in the class of 1930.
  Bird has been cited as a possible real-life inspiration for the fictional movie character Indiana Jones.
context_section_description: Junius Bouton Bird (1907–1982), born in Rye, New York, was an American archaeologist who was appointed curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1934. His contributions to the study of ecology, climate, and pre-Columbian archaeology earned him several awards including: The Viking Fund Medal for Archaeology (1956) and The Order of "El sol de Peru" (1974). In 1961 he was elected as the president of the Society for American Archaeology. He studied at Columbia College and was in the class of 1930.
  Bird has been cited as a possible real-life inspiration for the fictional movie character Indiana Jones.
caption: Bird in the 1960s
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