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Dee Ann Story
Dee Ann Story (née Suhm; December 12, 1931 – December 26, 2010) was an American archaeologist. Story lived in Wimberley, Texas, and was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] Story's best-known excavations were the George C. Davis and Deshazo sites.[2] Story's work with Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, took place in the 1960s and 1970s and pinpointed the timeline of the area.[3] She brought more advanced techniques to the dig, such as radiocarbon dating.[4] Story was also the first woman hired to work as a professional archaeologist for the state of Texas. BiographyStory was born in Houston on December 12, 1931.[5] Story developed a love of nature as a child.[6] She attended Texas Women's University and then finished her bachelor's degree in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1953.[5] In 1956, she finished her master's degree at UT Austin.[5] Story attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where she earned her PhD in 1963.[5] She was one of the first women to earn an anthropology PhD from the University.[7] She died on December 26, 2010, after a "lengthy battle with cancer."[8] CareerStory's early work in archaeology began as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin where she sorted and organized artifacts uncovered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).[7] While she was working towards her PhD, she became involved with the Glen Canyon Archaeological Project and worked with Jesse Jennings.[5] She was the only woman on an all-male field crew in Glen Canyon and was hired because of her extensive prior field experience.[7] She also ran the archaeological lab at the University of Utah to analyze the artifacts found in Glen Canyon.[7] Story became Texas' first professional woman archaeologist when she was hired in 1962 as the assistant director of the Texas Archeological Salvage Project.[9] From 1963 to 1987, she served as the director of the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL), which is a research unit at the University of Texas at Austin.[10] In 1965, she was hired as a full professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[9] Story started working at the George C. Davis site in 1968.[9] She had previous experience with Caddo artifacts, having found some while cataloging the WPA collection.[9] Story not only worked with Caddo history, but she was also interested in working with contemporary Caddo people.[9] In 1987, she became a professor emeritus.[5] Story was awarded the Curtis D. Tunnell Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Archeological Society.[8] Story donated all of her grey-literature to the library at the Center for Archaeological Studies on the Texas State University campus prior to her death in 2010.[11] ReferencesCitations
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