Background
Coon, Carleton Stevens was born on June 23, 1904 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Lewis and Bessie (Carleton) Coon.
Coon, Carleton Stevens was born on June 23, 1904 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Lewis and Bessie (Carleton) Coon.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1925, Master of Arts, 1928, Doctor of Philosophy, 1928.
Field work, anthropological research, North Africa, Balkans, Ethiopia, Arabia, 1925-1934, discovered remains of Aterian fossil man, in North. Africa, 1939. Successively instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor anthropology Harvard, 1934-1948, on leave, 1942-1945. Curator ethnology, professor anthropology University Museum, Philadelphia, 1948-1963, research curator in anthropology, from 1963.
Research associate in ethnology Peabody Museum, Harvard, from 1968.
Consultant Scott-Foresman and Company, Chicago. Member commission on scientific personnel National Science Foundation, 1961-1964, Smithsonian Committee on Foreign Currency, 1965-1970.
Led archeological expedition which discovered Hotu man, Iran, 1951. Expedition to Afghanistan, 1954, Syria, Central Africa, 1955, India, 1956-1957, Alakaluf Indians, Chile, 1959, Morocco, 1962-1963, discovering Jebel Ighoud man Northern 2, Sierra Leone, 1965.
Chad and Libya, 1966-1967.
Special assistant Department State, 1942-1943.
Member commission on scientific personnel National Science Foundation, 1961-1964, Smithsonian Committee on Foreign Currency, 1965-1970. Served to major Army of the United States (Office of Strategic Services), 1942-1945. Member Association de la Liberation Francaise du 8 Novembre (honorary), National Academy Science, American Anthropological Association, American Association Physical Anthropologists (president 1962-1963), American Academy Arts and Science, Honneur Association de la Liberation Française du 8 November 1942, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Clubs: Explorers (fellow) (New York City).
Married Mary Goodale, 1926. Married second, Lisa Dougherty Geddes, 1945. Children: Carleton South., Charles Adams.