The Julian Collection
Antiquities of the Great Basin Native American Tribes
Steward was active in excavations at several locations in the Eastern Great Basin in the 1930's-1940s and it is believed that the current collection was accumulated by Steward during that time with the aid of an association of collectors.
Dr. Julian Steward
The Great Anthropologist of Indigenous Tribes of American West
Julian Haynes Steward was an American anthropologist and ethnographer best known for the advancement of his concept of “cultural ecology,” the idea that cultural development is not simply the result of cultural interaction, but interaction with the environment.
Contribution to Anthropology
The Academic Grandfather of Cultural Ecology in Anthropology
Julian Haynes Steward was an American anthropologist and ethnographer best known for the advancement of his concept of “cultural ecology,” the idea that cultural development is not simply the result of cultural interaction, but interaction with the environment.