PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

• Joseph Ralston Caldwell conducted major excavations in the Savannah, Georgia area in the late 1930s at the Irene site as part of Depression era archaeology program.

Trend and tradition in the prehistory of the eastern United States (American Anthropological Association Memoir[s]), Tal-i-Iblis;: The Kerman Range and the beginnings of smelting (Illinois State Museum preliminary reports) .