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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-09-01 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-02-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007081b.htm person Birdsell Joseph Bernard AACR2 20 March 1908 5 March 1994 Place of Birth South Bend, Indiana, United States of America Place of Death Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Anthropologist Joseph Birdsell was a physical anthropologist who early in his career worked as a financial analyst and later served with the U.S. Army during WWII. In 1947 he became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California in Los Angeles, retiring from there as Professor in 1974. He started his anthropological studies at Harvard University in 1935. Birdsell was noted for his trihybrid theory of Australian Aboriginal origins. This was widely accepted for some years but eventually was debunked. He used as the basis for this theory data collected during two extended field trips to Australia. The first in 1938 - 1939 was under the auspices of Harvard University and the University of Adelaide, and the second in 1952 - 1954. His field companion on both occasions was Norman Tindale, Curator of Anthropology at the South Australian Museum: their wives also accompanied them, acting as research assistants and secretaries. While Tindale's focus was the collection of ethnographic data, Birdsell concentrated on anthropometrics - the invasive collection of physiological measurements, and blood and hair samples, from thousands of individuals. Data collected in Australia during the first period of fieldwork became the basis of his doctoral thesis. Tindale and Birdsell remained close colleagues for many years. Birdsell bequeathed to the South Australian Museum his Australian field notes with related journals, correspondence, and photographs. 1974 Career position - Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 1931 1931 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. May 1938 July 1938 Career event - Field work in Australia, with Norman Tindale, under the auspices of the University of Adelaide and Harvard University 1941 1941 Career position - Lecturer, State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington, U.S.A. 1942 1942 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1942 1945? Career position - Served with the U.S. Army at the Personal Equipment Laboratory, Wright Field, Ohio 1946 1946 Career position - Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1947 Career position - Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 1948 1951 Career position - Associate Editor, American journal of physical anthropology 1952 1952 Career position - Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1952 1954 Career event - Fieldwork in Australia with Norman Tindale 1973 1973 Career position - Research Fellowship, Australian National University 1974 Career position - Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1900 - 1993) South Australian Museum (1940 - )

Birdsell's Australian field notes, journals, correspondence, and photographs were bequeathed to the Museum

 'Birdsell, Joseph Bernard (Joe)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Birdsell, Joseph Bernard (Joe) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Races: a study of the problems of race formation in man Coon, Carleton S.; and Garn, Stanley M.; and Birdsell, Joseph B. Races: a study of the problems of race formation in man Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas 1950 Journal Article: Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-39: the racial origins of the extinct Tasmanians Birdsell, Joseph Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-39: the racial origins of the extinct Tasmanians 1949 Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 11 3 105-22 Journal Article: Tasmanoid tribes in north Queensland : results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938 - 1939 Tindale, Norman B.; and Birdsell, Joseph B. Tasmanoid tribes in north Queensland : results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938 - 1939 1941 Records of the South Australian Museum 7 1 1-9 Book: Microevolutionary patterns in Aboriginal Australia: a gradient analysis of clines Birdsell, Joseph B. Microevolutionary patterns in Aboriginal Australia: a gradient analysis of clines New York Oxford University Press 1993 Journal Article: Some reflections on fifty years in biological anthropology Birdsell, Joseph Some reflections on fifty years in biological anthropology 1987 Annual review of anthropology 16 1 1-12 Journal Article: Blood groups in the Australian Aborigines Birdsell, Joseph; and Boyd, William C. Blood groups in the Australian Aborigines 1940 American journal of physical anthropology 27 1 69-90 Journal Article: Preliminary data on the trihybrid origin of the Australian Aborigines Birdsell, Joseph Preliminary data on the trihybrid origin of the Australian Aborigines 1967 Archaeology & physical anthropology in Oceania 2 2 100-55 Journal Article: Obituary: Roy Thomas Simmons 1906-1975 Birdsell, J. B. Obituary: Roy Thomas Simmons 1906-1975 1976 American journal of physical anthropology 45 1 1-4 Book Section: Jo Birdsell: a brief memoir Littlewood, Robert A. Jo Birdsell: a brief memoir Los Angeles Department of Anthropology, University of California 1981 The perception of evolution: essays honoring Joseph B. Birdsell Mai, Larry L.; Shanklin, Eugenia; and Sussman, Robert W. 15-20 Journal Article: Joseph Bernard Birdsell 1908 - 1994 Horton, David; and Moser, Stephanie Joseph Bernard Birdsell 1908 - 1994 1994 Australian Aboriginal studies 1 96-8 Journal Article: Making the rainforest Aboriginal: Tindale and Birdsell's foray into deep time McGregor, Russell Making the rainforest Aboriginal: Tindale and Birdsell's foray into deep time 2016 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - culture 10 9-21 Book Section: Birdsell, Joseph Bernard (Joe) (1908 - 1994), physical anthropologist Reidy, Nell Birdsell, Joseph Bernard (Joe) (1908 - 1994), physical anthropologist Canberra Australian National University Press 2021 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 19: 1991 - 1995 A-Z Melanie Nolan 61-3