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George F. Dales Papers
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George Franklin Dales, a native of Akron, Ohio received his B.A. from the University of Akron in 1953. A major in Classical Studies, Dales chose the University of Pennsylvania to contunue his work, attaining his Ph.D. in 1960 with a dissertation titled, "Mesopotamian and Related Female Figurines: Their Chronology, Diffusion and Cultural Functions."
Dales lectured at the University of Toronto from 1961 to 1963. He returned to Penn and was appointed both assistant and then Associate Curator of the South Asian Collection at the Penn Museum and moved from Assistant to Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Regional Studies. Dales left Penn in 1972 to work at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dales spent thirty seasons in archaeological research, beginning in 1957 at Nippur. His life's work was conducted in India at Mohenjo-Daro and Balakot. Dales also directed the Harrapan Archaeological Project which incorporated staff from several universities. He published over eighty articles and monographs before his death in 1992. His publications include Excavations at Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan: The Pottery (1986) His last work, Explorations on the Makran coast, Pakistan: A search for Paradise, published posthumously by the Archaeological Research Facility of the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 was an illustrated journal account of his 1960 survey of the Makran coast of Pakistan.
George Franklin Dales, a native of Akron, Ohio received his B.A. from the University of Akron in 1953 majoring in Classical Studies. He attained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. Dales spent thirty seasons in archaeological research, beginning in 1957 at Nippur. His life's work was conducted in Pakistan at Mohenjo-Daro and Balakot. Dales also directed the Harrapan Archaeological Project which incorporated staff from several universities. He published over eighty articles and monographs before his death in 1992.
The George F. Dales Papers consist of seven archival boxes of data and one card file box. The records are arranged by site-Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ceylon, Thailand and Indonesia. The Thailand and Indonesia site series hold only correspondence. All other areas are represented with the addition of field notes, maps and plans, photographs, notes and lists of findings and pottery. The pottery is frequently drawn and classified by type.
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- 1/12/2017