Jeffrey (formerly Mildred) Dickemann (1929–2021)

Abstract

Although not recognized by many in today’s California archaeological community, Jeffrey Dickemann’s contributions to anthropology in general and California archaeology in particular were significant (Figure 1). Dickemann’s impact can be recognized in two overlapping but somewhat disparate areas: major scholarly contributions to the subfield of human sociobiology in the 1970s and 1980s, and the education of a large number of would-be archaeologists and cultural resource management (CRM) professionals in anthropological theory at Sonoma State University between 1968 and 1990.