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.
The Movius Line
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.[1]
Scarre, C (ed), The Human Past, Thames and Hudson, London, 2005 ISBN0-500-28531-4
ReferencesEdit
^"Grumbling Australia: An Attack And Defence". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 32, no. 1, 618. South Australia. 29 May 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
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