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- W179615956 abstract "A Nobel Prize in Physics . . . [ice clinking in a glass] MMK: I’m with Gary Rollefson who has kindly agreed to talk to me about his life story in archaeology and anthropology. I’ve known you for a while now and we’ve spent a lot of time chatting in the desert, but I don’t think that I have ever asked you how you ended up in archaeology. GOR: I was an undergraduate student at the University of California at Berkley, and I was going to be Iowa’s first Nobel Prize winner in physics; I was convinced that physics was my destiny. It was my destiny until I hit Calculus 4, which made no sense to me and I didn’t understand why people would even want to think about things like this. So the following semester after getting an F [a failing grade] in Calculus 4, I took a variety of courses in other departments, some of which I had never heard of, including anthropology. I had no idea what anthropology was, and the course that I took was Anthropology 101, which had 900 students in a lecture hall, which was taught by a fellow named T. D. McCown. He was sort of a walking, mummified skeleton; he had not a single gram of fat on his body. He had the driest, well it kind of went with the mummification, the driest sense of humor that I had ever encountered, but it was something I really appreciated. In any event, that was my first exposure to human evolution, my first exposure to archaeology. McCown had worked at Tabun and Shkul Cave in Israel in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and talked a little bit about that and I was kind of captivated by it and in the ensuing four semesters, which is what I had left at Berkley, I took four more courses from McCown, who went into an awful lot of archaeology and I think I kind of stamped archaeology into my future. I took archaeology courses from other people as well, and I took other anthropology courses, cultural, linguistics, and physical, but of those four fields archaeology really won out, there was no doubt about it. I was hooked." @default.
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- W179615956 title "A Life with Stone: Gary Rollefson and the Archaeology of Jordan" @default.
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