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Polly Dix Schaafsma, American archaeologist, researcher. Recipient Emil W. Haury award, Western National Parks Association, 2006, Byron S. Cummings award, Arizona Archaeol. & History Society, 2007, Klaus Wellmann award, American Rock Art Research Association, 2008. Member American Rock Art Research Association (member advisory board since 1985), Society of America Archaeology, Archaeol. Society New Mexico.

Background

Schaafsma, Polly Dix was born on October 24, 1935 in Springfield, Vermont, United States. Daughter of Raymond Arthur and Mildred Elizabeth (Gafvert) Dix.

Education

Bachelor, Mount Holyoke College, 1957. Master of Arts, University Colorado, 1962.

Career

Archaeologist Museum New Mexico, Sante Fe, 1962-1963, 94-96, project director, 1966-1967, research associate, since 1985. Project director Utah State Park Commission and Governor's Commission on Historic Sites, Salt Lake City, 1970, New Mexico State Planning Office, Santa Fe, 1971. Consultant Kuaua Mural Project, Museum Indian Arts & Culture Laboratory Anthropology, 2007, Bureau Reclamation Glen Canyon & Navajo Reservoir Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act Project, 2009.

Project director National Park Service, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 1987. Member blue ribbon panel advisory board Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, 1992-1996. Member advisory council Four Corners School Outdoor Education, Monticello, Utah, since 1996.

Member review committee The Rock Art Archive, Institute Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1997, guest curator, Museum of Indian Arts Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, 1998, Archaeologist for Enthnographic Assessment Project, Hueco Tanks State History Park, The Rio Grande Foundation for Comtys. & Cultural Landscapes, 2001, Cosmology Group, Santa Fe Institute, 2007-2010.

Achievements

  • Polly Dix Schaafsma has been listed as a noteworthy Archaeologist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

All works

Membership

Member American Rock Art Research Association (member advisory board since 1985), Society of America Archaeology, Archaeol. Society New Mexico.

Connections

Married Curtis Forrest Schaafsma, September 28, 1958. Children: Hoskinini Scott, Pieter Dix.

Father:
Raymond Arthur Dix

Mother:
Mildred Elizabeth (Gafvert) Dix

Spouse:
Curtis Forrest Schaafsma

child:
Hoskinini Scott Schaafsma

child:
Pieter Dix Schaafsma