Anthropologist and Archaeologist. One of the first professional women archaeologists, Betty Meggers was an American anthropologist famous for her Environmental Limitation Theory relating the idea of productivity of environment to complexity of society. She suggested that environmental and agricultural resources acted as a limit on cultural complexity. Meggers is also famous for suggesting that prehistoric trans-Pacific migrants from Japan were responsible for the earliest pottery in South America. She had hundreds of publications. For decades she was the Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Anthropologist and Archaeologist. One of the first professional women archaeologists, Betty Meggers was an American anthropologist famous for her Environmental Limitation Theory relating the idea of productivity of environment to complexity of society. She suggested that environmental and agricultural resources acted as a limit on cultural complexity. Meggers is also famous for suggesting that prehistoric trans-Pacific migrants from Japan were responsible for the earliest pottery in South America. She had hundreds of publications. For decades she was the Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
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