Carleton S. Coon
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| Born | Carleton Stevens Coon June 23, 1904 Wakefield, Massachusetts |
| Died | June 3, 1981 (aged 76) Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| Residence | West Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Racial theory and origins |
| Influences | Earnest A. Hooton |
| Notable awards |
Legion of Merit Viking Fund Medal (1951) Gold Medal of the Philadelphia Athenæum |
| Spouse | Mary Goodale (1926 – circa 1945), Lisa Dougherty Geddes (1945 – ) |
Carleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American physical anthropologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard University, and president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Carleton Coon was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts to a Cornish American family. He developed an interest in prehistory, and attended Phillips Academy, Andover. Coon matriculated to Harvard University, where he was attracted to the relatively new field of anthropology by Earnest Hooton and he graduated magna cum laude in 1925. He became the Curator of Ethnology at the University Museum of Philadelphia. Coon continued with coursework at Harvard. He conducted fieldwork in the Rif area of Morocco in 1925, which was politically unsettled after a rebellion of the local populace against the Spanish. He earned his Ph.D. in 1928 and returned to Harvard as a lecturer and later a professor. Coon's interest was in attempting to use Darwin's theory of natural selection to explain the differing physical characteristics of races. Coon studied Albanians from 1920 to 1930; he traveled to Ethiopia in 1933; and in Arabia, North Africa and the Balkans, he worked on sites from 1925 to 1939, where he discovered a Neanderthal in 1939. Coon rewrote William Z. Ripley's 1899 The Races of Europe in 1939.
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