Waldo Rudolph Wedel

Waldo Wedel
Born(1908-09-10)September 10, 1908
DiedAugust 27, 1996(1996-08-27) (aged 87)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forDirect historical approach to archaeology
SpouseMildred Mott Wedel
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsSmithsonian Institution
Doctoral advisorCarl Sauer

Waldo Rudolph Wedel (September 10, 1908 – August 27, 1996) was an American archaeologist and a central figure in the study of the prehistory of the Great Plains. He was born in Newton, Kansas to a family of Mennonites.

In 1939 he married Mildred Mott, a fellow archaeologist and ethnohistorian.[1] Wedel died in 1996 in Boulder, Colorado, about one year after Mildred's death.[2]

  1. ^ Hudson, David; Bergman, Marvin; Horton, Loren (May 2009). The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press. p. 546. ISBN 978-1-58729-724-3.
  2. ^ Gradwohl, David M. (November 1995). "Mildred Mott Wedel 1912-1995". Plains Anthropologist. 40 (154): 399–403. doi:10.1080/2052546.1995.11931778. Retrieved 2022-04-29.