Gonzalez, Alberto Rex

Alberto Rex González (född Parchment, Buenos Aires, November 16 1918 - död, La Plata , Buenos Aires, 28 mars, 2012 ) var en argentinsk arkeolog , antropolog och läkare som studerat pre-colombianska kulturer i Sydamerika och i synnerhet i nuvarande Argentina. Verksam vid Museo de la Plata. (wikipedia, 2013-11-22)
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Archaeologist, anthropologist and medicine doctor. As an anthropologist and archaeologist, he was a referent in Argentina.
Began researching the cultures of Northwest Argentina in the decade of 1950's.
He was a pioneer in the carbon dating system 14 (a method used to determine the "age" of a fossil), discovered that the fossils found in that area had eight thousand years. But do not stop there: continued to investigate until he managed to make a comprehensive cultural historical reconstruction of pre-Columbian cultures, incorporating economic and social organization, to studies of ceramics.
Between 1984 and 1987 he was director of the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). And from 1984 to 1989, chief of the Division Archaeological Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata. In the decade of 80's, when the Academy not help him, he offered his encouragement and support to the then fledgling Forensic Anthropology Team, which identified the remains of many missings during the last dictatorship. He was awarded the Special Award of the American Archaeological Society, Between another awards. (www.findagrave.com, 2013-11-22)