Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913 – 1997) was an American

United States

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 anthropologist and archaeologist most famous for his work at Coahuila

Coahuila

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 in Mexico

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 and his "Conjunctive archaeology

Conjunctive archaeology

Conjunctive archaeology is a method of studying of the past developed by Walter Taylor in the 1940s that combined elements of both the traditional archaeology and the allied field of anthropology...

", a method of studying of the past combining elements of both the traditional archaeology of the period and the allied field of anthropology. This was exemplified by his work A Study of Archeology.
Taylor was born in Chicago

Chicago

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 but grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut

Greenwich, Connecticut

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