Cornelius Cosgrove

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Cornelius Burton Cosgrove (died 1936) was an archaeologist trained in the Southwestern United States. With his wife Harriet, he began excavating sites for the Harvard Peabody Museum, beginning with an expedition in the Mimbres Valley. In 1929 he and his wife were hired by William Claflin, Jr. to work on the Stalling's Island site in Columbia County, Georgia. The site was somewhat disturbed by aboriginal activity, but the Cosgroves described a group of artifacts as the "Stalling's Island Culture", differentiating the artifacts from other material at the site due to age. The work was the first stratigraphic analysis of midden in Georgia.

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• "The Waring Papers: the Collected Works of Antonio J. Waring, Jr." Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; Volume 38. Waring, Antonio J., Williams, Stephen (editor). ISBN 0873651693