James A. Ford

James A. Ford was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, on February 12, 1911. He became interested in work on Native American mound research while in Mississippi, and between 1933 and 1934, worked at Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia, under Arthur Randolph Kelley. Also in 1934, he investigated the Tabby ruins at Elizafield Plantation near Brunswick, Georgia. From August 1 to September 1, 1934, he worked for the Georgia State Parks Service; and later that year, from September 2 to October 15, he worked for the Southeast Fair Association to develop an American Indian Exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1937, he became involved in a restoration project of an earthen lodge in Macon, Georgia for the National Park Service. James Alfred Ford died of cancer on February 25, 1968 in Gainesville, Florida.

Bibliography

*Ford, James Alfred 1954 "The History of the Peruvian Valley [Viru Valley] ." "Scientific American".--NY, v.191 no.2, .28-34.
*Ford, James Alfred 1961 "In Favor of Simple Typology." "American Antiquity".--Salt Lake City, v.27,no.1 p.113-114
*Ford, James Alfred 1952 "Mound Builders of the Mississippi." "Scientific American".--NY, v.186, no.3, p.22-27
*Ford, James Alfred 1954 "On the Concept of Types, an article by J.A. Ford with discussion by J.H. Steward." "American Anthropologist".--Menasha, Wis., n.s., v.56, p.42-57
*Ford, James Alfred 1952 "Reply to 'The Viru Valley sequence: a critical review'." "American Antiquity".--Salt Lake City, v.XVII, p.250

References

* [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fa/ford.htm Register to the Papers of James Alfred Ford] Robert Montgomey, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution November 2000
* [http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios98/ramirezbio.html The Scholarly Life of James A. Ford] University of Texas at Austin