Turner, Christy G.
- Summary
- Christy G. Turner II was an American anthropologist known for his research on dental anthropology, perimortem taphonomy, and his theories about the populating of the American continent in three migrating waves from Northeast Asia, which received support from genetic research. Turner's work spanned all the fields of Anthropology, and his fieldwork included exploring the interaction between humans and animals during the Ice Age in Siberia and taking dental casts of indigenous peoples in the Aleutian Islands. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1933 [2]
- 1933-11-28 [4]
- Birth Place
- Columbia [4]
- Died
- 2013-07-27 [4]
- Death Place
- Tempe [4]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [4]
- Profession
- Anthropologe [2]
- Employer
- Arizona State University [4]
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin–Madison [4]
- University of Arizona [4]
- Country of Education
- United States [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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