Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

American anthropologist and archaeologist

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1892

Place of Birth: Milton, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) was an archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in Central and South American Studies.
His work, Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua (2 vols., 1926), based on his doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Harvard University, is regarded as a pioneering study.
Lothrop was a longtime research associate of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and made many contributions based on fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and evaluations of private and public collections that focused on Central and South America.
He is known for archaeological excavations in Argentina and Chile as well as investigations of the archaeological contexts for the stone spheres of Costa Rica.
Lothrop is also known for his research on goldwork and other artifacts from Costa Rica, the Veraguas Province of Panama, and the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico.