Education
Turner graduated from Van Nuys High School and received his Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Arizona (1957, 1958), followed in 1967 by a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin.
Turner graduated from Van Nuys High School and received his Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Arizona (1957, 1958), followed in 1967 by a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin.
Turner"s work spanned all the fields of Anthropology (physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and sociocultural 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. Turner was married for forty years to Jacqueline Adams Turner, who predeceded him in death. He remaried Olga V. Pavlova who had two daughters from a previous marriage.
Turner and Jacqueline had three daughters, Kali Holtschlag (Michael), Kimi Turner, and Korri Turner (John Rockhill).
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