Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "For the Iowa geologist, see Charles Rollin Keyes.Charles Reuben Keyes (May 5, 1871 – July 23, 1951) was a pioneering Iowa archaeologist and linguist. Charles Keyes attended Harvard University for his Ph.D. in German, and taught German at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa until his retirement in 1941. He is best remembered as the founder of modern Iowa archaeology. While his early work dealt with linguistics, by the 1920s Keyes focused his research almost exclusively on archaeology. Keyes created the Iowa Archaeological Survey in 1922 and led it with Ellison Orr until their deaths in 1951, recording thousands of sites and conducting hundreds of excavations, and helping to create the modern prehistoric theoretical and temporal framework for Midwestern archaeology, and was among the first to describe the Mississippian culture. Keyes was one of the proponents and early booster of the creation of Effigy Mounds National Monument. The Iowa Archeological Society emerged in 1951 as Keyes' brainchild."@en }
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- Charles_R._Keyes abstract "For the Iowa geologist, see Charles Rollin Keyes.Charles Reuben Keyes (May 5, 1871 – July 23, 1951) was a pioneering Iowa archaeologist and linguist. Charles Keyes attended Harvard University for his Ph.D. in German, and taught German at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa until his retirement in 1941. He is best remembered as the founder of modern Iowa archaeology. While his early work dealt with linguistics, by the 1920s Keyes focused his research almost exclusively on archaeology. Keyes created the Iowa Archaeological Survey in 1922 and led it with Ellison Orr until their deaths in 1951, recording thousands of sites and conducting hundreds of excavations, and helping to create the modern prehistoric theoretical and temporal framework for Midwestern archaeology, and was among the first to describe the Mississippian culture. Keyes was one of the proponents and early booster of the creation of Effigy Mounds National Monument. The Iowa Archeological Society emerged in 1951 as Keyes' brainchild.".