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Carleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Carleton S. Coon was an American anthropologist who made notable contributions to cultural and physical anthropology and archaeology. His areas of study ranged from prehistoric agrarian communities to contemporary tribal societies in the Middle East, Patagonia, and the hill country of India.
Carleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American physical anthropologist and archaeologist, best remembered for his work on the origin of races. Like his mentor, Earnest Hooton, Coon published a variety of books that brought his ideas to the general public.
Jun 6, 1981 · Dr. Carleton S. Coon, one of the last of the great general anthropologists, died Wednesday at his home in Gloucester, Mass. He was 76 years old.
Oct 4, 2018 · Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981) was a 20th‐century American anthropologist who made significant contributions to archaeology, paleoanthropology, North African ethnography, and the study of...
Dec 1, 1981 · Carleton Coon, the Harvard anthropologist, was an OSS cloak-and-dagger man in North Africa during World War II. Immediately after the events he dictated his recollections, here printed. The material is rough, sometimes confusing, and yet interesting as a picture of the romantic and unconventional character of the OSS.
The paper examines the interactions among Coon, segregationist Carleton Putnam, geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and anthropologist Sherwood Washburn. The paper concludes that Coon actively aided the segregationist cause in violation of his own standards for scientific objectivity.
