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1920 yearbook photo 23 july 1951 catherine keyes , margaret naumann keyes mount vernon , iowa , united states mount vernon , iowa , u.s. university of california , berkeley , cornell college 240px american archaeology 5 may 1871 sarah mary nauman mount vernon , iowa first descriptions of the mississippian culture file : charles_reuben_keyes_1920 . jpg charles r. keyes
 charles reuben keyes cornell college , harvard university
charles r. keyes

`` for the iowa geologist , see charles rollin keyes . ''
charles reuben keyes -lrb- may 5 , 1871 -- july 23 , 1951 -rrb- was a pioneering iowa archaeologist and linguist .
charles keyes attended harvard university for his ph.d. in german , and taught german at cornell college in mount vernon , iowa until his retirement in 1941 .
he is best remembered as the founder of modern iowa archaeology .
while his early work dealt with linguistics , by the 1920s keyes focused his research almost exclusively on archaeology .
keyes created the iowa archaeological survey in 1922 and led it with ellison orr until their deaths in 1951 , recording thousands of sites and conducting hundreds of excavations , and helping to create the modern prehistoric theoretical and temporal framework for midwestern archaeology , and was among the first to describe the mississippian culture .
keyes was one of the proponents and early booster of the creation of effigy mounds national monument .
the iowa archeological society emerged in 1951 as keyes ' brainchild .
