Malcolm Jennings Rogers, 1890-1960

Southwestern archaeology lost one of its pioneers when Malcolm Rogers' jeep was struck from the rear on September 11, 1960. The injuries sustained resulted in his death in San Diego on September 14, only days after he had completed a manuscript embodying some of the conclusions he had reached as a result of study which extended back to 1919. During a period when anthropological research in the desert portion of the Greater Southwest was concentrated on social anthropology he was virtually alone in giving attention to problems of archaeology, yet he still found time to collect ethnographic data on technology, ethnobotany, and mythology from surviving Indian groups in Southern California, Baja California, and Arizona which provided bases for his archaeological interpretations. It was foreseen that the ethnographic resources would shortly disappear; it was not foreseen that the archaeological resources also would vanish as quickly under the inroads of "collectors" and expanding settlement. The nature of the archaeological evidence in this area is such that it is more than usually vulnerable to this kind of destruction, so that archaeologists working in the area in the future will have less than the usual proportion of remains available, and their debt to Rogers will be that much larger

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• From Southwestern Journal of Anthropology

  Philip K Bock•International Journal of American…•1965

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