The Near East
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
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content: Patty Jo Watson papers
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content: Patty Jo Watson papers / Series 1: Research
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content: 1954-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2004-26, Subseries 1.2
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This subseries is arranged alphabetically by region.
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content: Watson worked in the Near East from 1954 to 1970. The majority of her work there was archaeological in nature, but she also conducted some ethnoarchaeological work. Her fieldwork in Iraq at Banahilk was under the direction of Robert Braidwood of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and her work in Turkey at Girikihaciyan was under both Braidwood and Halet Çambel of the University of Istanbul. Her ethnological work in Iran was intended to create a body of data from which to form hypotheses in her archaeological work. This subseries includes correspondence, drafts of papers and articles, notes on recovered artifacts, maps, illustrations, and photographs. Of particular interest in this subseries are the letters written by Watson to her then fiancé Red Watson during her first field season (1954-1955) at Banahilk in Iraq; the letters contain detailed observations on both the people of the region and the work she conducted there.