Hallam L. Movius

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|caption = Archaeologist Hallam L. Movius, who posited the existence of the Movius Line.

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|birth_place = Newton, Massachusetts

|death_date = {{death date and age|1987|5|30|1907|11|28|mf=y}}

|death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts

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|citizenship = United States of America

|nationality = American

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|fields = Archaeology, Anthropology

|workplaces = Harvard University,

|alma_mater = Harvard University

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|known_for = Excavations in Europe and throughout Asia
Posited the Movius Line

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Hallam Leonard Movius (November 28, 1907 – May 30, 1987) was an American archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.

Career

He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Harvard College, graduating in 1930. After receiving his PhD from Harvard and serving in the 12th Air Force in North Africa and Italy during World War II, he returned to Harvard and became a professor of archaeology there. Eventually he also became curator of Paleolithic Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

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In 1948 he proposed the existence of a Movius Line dividing the Acheulean tool users of Europe, Africa and western Asia from the chopping tool industries of East Asia.

He also studied the Perigordian and Aurignacian cultures of Palaeolithic France, excavating at the rock shelter of Abri Pataud in Les Eyzies (Dordogne) from 1958 to 1973.

He married Nancy Champion de Crespigny (1910–2003), daughter of the Australian physician Sir Trent Champion de Crespigny on 25 September 1936. The American poet Geoffrey Movius (born 21 January 1940) was a son.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55867313 |title=Grumbling Australia: An Attack And Defence |newspaper=The Mail (Adelaide) |volume=32 |issue=1,618 |location=South Australia |date=29 May 1943 |accessdate=12 August 2018 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}