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Creation Date
2-22-2022
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Born in 1880, David M. Robinson was a professor and American archaeologist who most notably led the archaeological excavation of Olynthus, Greece from 1928 to 1938. He taught at multiple universities including Illinois college, Johns Hopkins, and ended his career at the University of Mississippi period from public lectures to general publications, Robinson illuminated the extensive writing and educational obligation of archaeology that often goes unnoticed by the public.
In 2014, Alan Kaiser, the author of Archaeology, Sexism and Scandal: The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman’s Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them proved that Robinson plagiarized both the masters and doctoral theses of his student Mary Ross Ellingson in two of the volumes of his excavations at Olynthus. Although Robinson accomplished a great deal during his career, this theft stains his academic record.
Exhibit includes clippings and ephemera, articles ("Unpublished Greek Vases in the Robinson Collection", "A Hoard of Silver Coins from Carystus", 1952; "Macedonica", 1953), books (America in Greece: A Traditional Policy, 1948; The collected publications of David Moore Robinson. v. 1-12, 1904-1956), and correspondence from the British Museum (2 March 1935) and the Museum of the American Numismatic Society (12 May 1951), as well as Kaiser's book.
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