Keith DeVries
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Keith Robert DeVries (born 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan; died of cancer on July 16, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a prominent archaeologist and expert on the Phrygian city of Gordium.
As an excavator, DeVries worked at Ischia and Corinth. His primary work was at Gordium; there he directed the excavations from 1977 to 1987.
DeVries earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He would teach at Pennsylvania for his career, as well as work at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Mediterranean section.
[edit] Works (incomplete)
- (Editor) From Athens to Gordion: the papers of a memorial symposium for Rodney S. Young, held at the University Museum, the third of May, 1975 (Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1980).
[edit] References
- Obituary by Jeremy Pearce in The New York Times July 29, 2006.
- Penn Museum obituary
