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    shaper of human cultures. Betty Jane Meggers was born in Washington, D.C., to Dr. William Frederick Meggers and Edith R. Meggers. Her father was an internationally...
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  • meggers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meggers may refer to: Meggers (crater), impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon Betty Meggers...
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    continued to study this culture. American archeologists Clifford Evans and Betty Meggers joined him in the early 1960s in studying the type-site. The original...
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    Chinese refugees, particularly at the end of the Shang dynasty. In 1975, Betty Meggers of the Smithsonian Institution argued that the Olmec civilization originated...
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    large population through agriculture given the poor soil. Archeologist Betty Meggers was a prominent proponent of this idea, as described in her book Amazonia:...
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    awarded the William F. Meggers Award for outstanding work in spectroscopy. In 1965, Dr. Meggers and his wife, Edith R. Meggers, donated their coin and...
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    people. This contradicts the traditional view of archaeologists, notably Betty Meggers, who asserted that the Amazon River Basin was not environmentally able...
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    Accessed August 2, 2007. Meggers, Betty J (1966). Daniel, Glyn (ed.). Ecuador. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. p. 50. Meggers, Betty J. and Clifford Evans...
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    society. Based on fieldwork in the 1940s and 1950s, the archaeologist Betty Meggers initially argued that the Marajoara culture had been founded by emigrants...
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    Chinese refugees, particularly at the end of the Shang dynasty. In 1975, Betty Meggers of the Smithsonian Institution argued that the Olmec civilization originated...
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