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Dr. Bryant Bannister is emeritus director (1964-1982) of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and emeritus professor (1959-1989) of dendrochronology and archaeology at the University of Arizona. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 2, 1926 and received his B.A. from Yale University in 1948, his M.A. in 1953 and his Ph. D. in 1960 both from the University of Arizona. He studied under A. E. Douglass, the first director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, serving as his assistant through most of the 1950’s. He met Emil Walter Haury, a noted Southwest archaeologist and director (1938-1964) of the Arizona State Museum as an undergraduate at the Point of Pines Field School in the summer 1948 and continued his graduate studies under his direction. He married Betty Stanaway on August 22, 1951 and they have two children, Nancy Beth and Frances Kimball.
Dr. Bannister is the fourth director (1964-1981) of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, founded in 1937 by Douglass, astronomer Edwin Francis Carpenter (1898-1963), and Emil W. Haury. During his tenure as director, he was instrumental in supervising the updating of the entire Southwestern tree-ring chronology. He also served as associate/assistant and acting dean of the UA College of Earth Sciences between 1971-1982.
Dr. Bannister's subject specialties were archaeological tree-ring dating in the US and the Southwest and dendrochronology worldwide. He began his teaching career in dendrochronology, the science of dating annual growth layers in woody plants, in 1959, and was an assistant professor from 1960-1964, associate professor in 1964, and full professor from 1965 until his retirement in 1992.
His publications include his M.A. thesis, Tree-Ring Analysis As Applied to the Dating of Kin Kletso Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, (1953) and his Ph.D. dissertation, Tree-Ring Dating of Archaeological Sites in the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico (1959). He co-authored the tree-ring dating publications issued by the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research that covered Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Utah, including:
Tree-Ring Dates from Arizona E: Chinle, de Chelly, Red Rock Area (1966)
Tree-Ring Dates from Arizona N-Q, Verde, Show Low, St. Johns Area (1966)
Tree-Ring Dates from Arizona K: Puerco-Wide Ruin-Ganado Area (1966)
Tree-Ring Dates from Arizona J: Hopi Mesas Area (1967)
Tree-Ring Dates from Arizona C-D, Eastern Grand Canyon, Tsegi Canyon, Kayenta Area (1968)
Tree-Ring Dates from Utah, S-W, Southern Utah Area (1969)
Tree-Ring Dates from New Mexico A, G-H: Shiprock-Zuni-Mt. Taylor Area (1970)
Tree-Ring Dates from New Mexico M-N, S, Z, Southwestern New Mexico Area (1970)
Tree-Ring Dates from Arizona U-W: Gila-Salt Rivers Area (1971)
He also wrote chapters in books, articles for the Laboratory Bulletin of Tree-Ring Research, the Tree-Ring Bulletin, the American Journal of Archaeology, the American Antiquity, other journals and proceedings, and numerous reviews and editorials.
Dr. Bannister is a fellow in the American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Society of American Archaeology, the Tree-Ring Society and its editor of their Bulletin from 1958-1969, a member of the Arizona Academy of Science, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Mu Epsilon, the Society of Sigma Xi (Arizona chapter president 1968-1969), and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
This collection contains the papers of Dr. Bryant Bannister from 1934 to 2009, bulk from 1950-1990, when he served as director of the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and professor at the UA. It includes administrative files and correspondence, grants submitted, subject material on his research interests, sabbaticals, correspondence and documentation of work with other colleagues, lecture notes and syllabi from his teaching profession in dendrochronology and archaeology, original manuscripts of his publications, including his dissertation and thesis, travels and personal biographical material.
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Bryant Bannister Papers(MS 508). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries
| Biographical, 1954-2002 | |||||||||||
| This series contains biographical information about Dr. Bannister including his honoraria and societies | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 1 | Biographical, 1954-2002 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Societies and Honoraria | |||||||||
| Correspondence, A-Z, 1950-2007 | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, A, 1958-1988 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence, B, 1958-1994 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, C,1951-2007 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence, D, 1958-1985 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence, Danson, Edward B., 1959-1981 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence, E, 1955-1991 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence, F, 1957-1992 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence, G, 1958-1999 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Correspondence, Gell, Jonathan, 1996-1998 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Correspondence, Giddings, J. L., 1958-1995 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Correspondence, Gladwin, Harold S., 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Correspondence, H, 1950-2004 | |||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | Correspondence, I-J, 1958-1986 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Correspondence, Judd, Neil M., 1960-1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Correspondence, K, 1962-1993 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Correspondence, Kuniholm, Peter I., 1972-2004 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Correspondence, L, 1960-1989 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Correspondence, Lindsay, Alexander J. Jr., 1957-1967 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Correspondence, M, 1956-1998 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Correspondence, McGregor, John C., 1958-1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Correspondence, N-O, 1955-1991 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Correspondence, Osborne, Douglas, 1961-1964 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Correspondence, P-Q, 1955-1983 | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Correspondence, Park, Won-Kyn, 1983-1984 | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Correspondence, Pilcher, Jon R., 1937-1994 | |||||||||
| 2 | 14 | Correspondence, R, 1952-1994 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Correspondence, S, 1952-2006 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Correspondence, Schweigruber, Fritz, H., 1974-1994 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Correspondence, Sleeper, H. Presoctt, Jr., 1975-1976 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Correspondence, T, 1955-2000 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Correspondence, U-V, 1958-2002 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Correspondence, University of Pennsylvania, 1958-1962 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Correspondence, University of Pennsylvania, 1963-1972 | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Correspondence, Vivian, Gordan, 1957-1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 9 | Correspondence, Vivian, Gordan, 1960-1966 | |||||||||
| 3 | 10 | Correspondence, W, 1955-1999 | |||||||||
| 3 | 11 | Correspondence, Webb, George E., 1983-1994 | |||||||||
| 3 | 12 | Correspondence, X-Z, 1961-1985 | |||||||||
| Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, 1934-2009 | |||||||||||
| The series contains the business files received from Dr. Bannister related to the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research | |||||||||||
| Administrative Files , 1934-2009 | |||||||||||
| This subseries is arranged chronological then alphabetically by topic | |||||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1934-1959 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1960-1969 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1970-1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1980-1985 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1986-1989 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1990-1999 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 2000-2009 | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Agnese Haury Fund, 1993-2008 | |||||||||
| 4 | 9 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Annual Reports, 1954-1965 | |||||||||
| 4 | 10 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Arizona State Museum, 1984-1991 | |||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files, 1961-1985 | |||||||||
| 4 | 11 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Fred C.Henson Company, 1966-1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | 12 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Inquiries, 1951-1974 | |||||||||
| 4 | 13 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Laboratory Equipment Development, 1956 | |||||||||
| 4 | 14 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Laboratory Equipment Development, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| 4 | 15 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Laboratory Equipment Development, 1962-1965 | |||||||||
| 4 | 16 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Laboratory Equipment Development, 1966-1974 | |||||||||
| 4 | 17 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Nitrate Film, 1936-1952 | |||||||||
| 4 | 18 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Stadium Construction, 1987-1989 | |||||||||
| 4 | 19 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Staff Meetings, 1966-1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | 20 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Administrative Files: Staff Meetings, 1980-1992 | |||||||||
| University of Arizona, 1966-1987 | |||||||||||
| This subseries is arranged alphabetically | |||||||||||
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| 4 | 21 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: University of Arizona: Centennial, 1985 | |||||||||
| 4 | 22 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: University of Arizona: College of Earth Science, 1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | 23 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: University of Arizona: Dept. of Geochronology, 1966-1968 | |||||||||
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| 5 | 1 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: University of Arizona: Geoscience Dept., 1978-1979 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: University of Arizona: School of Renewable Resources, 1986-1987 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: University of Arizona: Sunset Review, Lab of Organic Geochemistry, 1988 | |||||||||
| Grants , 1960-1974 | |||||||||||
| This subseries is arranged chronologically | |||||||||||
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| 5 | 4 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: National Science Foundation Institutionals, 1960-1970 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Dendrochronological Study of the Casas Grandes Site, Chihuahua, Mexico , 1961 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Completion of the First Turkish Tree-Ring Study, 1962 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: A Synthesis of Southwestern Dendrochronology, 1963 | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Dendroclimatic Series in Western North America(NSF), 1965-1967 | |||||||||
| 5 | 9 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Dendrochronology of Southwestern United States (NSF GS-247) , 1965-1967 | |||||||||
| 5 | 10 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Dendrochronology of Southwestern United States (NSF GS-908) , 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| 5 | 11 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Dendrochronology of Southwestern United States (NSF) , 1972-1974 | |||||||||
| 5 | 12 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Grants: Tree-Ring Investigations in the Italian Peninsula, 1974 | |||||||||
| Research | |||||||||||
| Series IV contains folders on Dr. Bannister’s research interests including, collaborative work with colleagues, noted under the colleague, and specific subjects. | |||||||||||
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| 5 | 13 | A. E. Douglass Films | |||||||||
| 5 | 14 | Archaeological Survey of Sonora, Mexico Expedition | |||||||||
| 5 | 15 | Bailey, Dana K., 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| 5 | 16 | Bailey, Dana K., 1960-1977 | |||||||||
| 5 | 17 | Blanchette, Robert A. | |||||||||
| 5 | 18 | Bristlecone Pine | |||||||||
| 5 | 19 | Central Arizona Project | |||||||||
| 5 | 20 | Cycloscope | |||||||||
| 5 | 21 | Czechoslovakia Tree-Rings | |||||||||
| 5 | 22 | Damon, Paul E. | |||||||||
| 5 | 23 | Douglass, A. E. | |||||||||
| 5 | 24 | Early Peoples, Prehistory and Tree-rings | |||||||||
| 5 | 25 | Eddy, John A. | |||||||||
| 5 | 26 | Fagette, Paul H., Jr. | |||||||||
| 5 | 27 | Ferguson, Charles Wesley | |||||||||
| 5 | 28 | Haury, Emil W. | |||||||||
| 5 | 29 | Haynes, C. Vance | |||||||||
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| 6 | 1 | History of Dendrochronology | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Japan, Oldest Tree | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Japanese Cypress section, 1963-1963 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Lehman, Juan Charles | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Libby, Willard F. | |||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Markgraf, Vera | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | McGraw, Donald J. | |||||||||
| 6 | 8 | Odishaw, Hugh | |||||||||
| 6 | 9 | Radiocarbon Dating | |||||||||
| 6 | 10 | Radiometer and Siderostat | |||||||||
| 6 | 11 | Renfrew, Colin | |||||||||
| 6 | 12 | Schulman, Edward | |||||||||
| 6 | 13 | Smiley, Terah (Ted) | |||||||||
| 6 | 14 | Tree-rings | |||||||||
| 6 | 15 | Tree-Rings and Environment Newsletter | |||||||||
| 6 | 16 | Tree-rings, Metal Tungsten, Cancer | |||||||||
| 6 | 17 | Tree-ring Research Worldwide | |||||||||
| 6 | 18 | Tripitaka Koreana | |||||||||
| 6 | 19 | University Indian Ruins Site | |||||||||
| 6 | 20 | University of Arizona Eclipse Expedition of 1923 | |||||||||
| 6 | 21 | Wasley, William Warwick | |||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Series V contains Bannister's writings, published and non-published, including his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation. | |||||||||||
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| 6 | 22 | Correspondence , 1962-1965 | |||||||||
| 6 | 23 | Correspondence International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis , 1987 | |||||||||
| 6 | 24 | Dendrochronology (unpublished) | |||||||||
| 6 | 25 | Dendrochronology chapter in Science in Archaeology, 1963 | |||||||||
| 6 | 26 | Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating: The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Connection by Steven Leavitt and Bryant Bannister, 2009 | |||||||||
| 6 | 27 | Dendrochronology in the Near East: Current Research and Future Potentialities (unpublished) | |||||||||
| 6 | 28 | Reviews | |||||||||
| 6 | 29 | Tree-Ring Analysis As Applied to the Dating of Kin Kletso Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Master's Thesis Correspondence, 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| 6 | 30 | Tree-Ring Analysis As Applied to the Dating of Kin Kletso Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Master's Thesis Manuscript, 1953 | |||||||||
| 6 | 31 | Tree-Ring Dating of Archaeological Sites in the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico Pd.D. Dissertation Manuscript(1 of 3), 1959 | |||||||||
| 6 | 32 | Tree-Ring Dating of Archaeological Sites in the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico Pd.D. Dissertation Manuscript(2 of 3), 1959 | |||||||||
| 6 | 33 | Tree-Ring Dating of Archaeological Sites in the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico Pd.D. Dissertation Manuscript(3 of 3), 1959 | |||||||||
| 6 | 34 | Tree-Ring Dating of Archaeological Sites in the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico Technical Series, 6.2, 1965 | |||||||||
| Teaching | |||||||||||
| This series contains Dr. Bannister's lecture notes and syllabi for courses taught at the University of Arizona. | |||||||||||
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| 6 | 35 | Courses Anthropology 160a, 160b, Geochronology 295, Climatology, 1951-1963 | |||||||||
| 6 | 36 | Course Geochronology - Dendrochronology 176, 1955 | |||||||||
| 6 | 37 | Course Geochronology - Dendrochronology 285, 1955-1956 | |||||||||
| 6 | 38 | Courses Anthropology – Dendrochronology 301, 1956-1958 | |||||||||
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| 7 | 1 | Courses Anthropology 295, 311a, 1965-1968 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Lectures, Addresses, Presentations, 1960-1979 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Lectures, Addresses, Presentations, 198-2003 | |||||||||
| Travel | |||||||||||
| Series VII contains information on Bannister's professional and sabbatical travels and conference presentations. | |||||||||||
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| 7 | 4 | 12th Annual Symposium Paleoecology and Ethnobotany of the Southwest, 1986 | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | 35th Congress Mexico, 1962 | |||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 36th International Congress of Americanists, 1964 | |||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Aegean Dendrochronology Project, 1982 | |||||||||
| 7 | 8 | Conferences and Trips, Various Locations, 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| 7 | 9 | Conferences and Trips, Various Locations, 1961-2008 | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | Egypt and Lebanon, 1965 | |||||||||
| 7 | 11 | International C14 and H3 Dating Conference, 1965 | |||||||||
| 7 | 12 | International Conference on the Application of Science to Medieval Archaeology, 1967 | |||||||||
| 7 | 13 | International Radiocarbon Dating Conference, 1972 | |||||||||
| 7 | 14 | Royal Society and British Academy Symposium, London England 1969 and Oxford University 1970 | |||||||||
| 7 | 15 | Sabbatical, 1966-1967 | |||||||||
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| 8 | 1 | Sabbatical(1 of 2), 1982 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Sabbatical(2 of 2), 1982 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Science Partnerships in Action, 1993 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | University of Arizona Delegation to China, 1976 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965 | |||||||||
| Audiovisual Materials | |||||||||||
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| 8 | 6 | Audio tape 1. Ferguson, UCLC lecture at the International Conference on the Application of Science to Medieval Archaeology. Recorded on DeJUR magnetic tape for dictating and transcribing machines (DeJUR- Amsco Corporation, Long Island City 1, New York) Audio tape 2. "Used tape Bannister." Recorded on Scotch 3M 290-1/4-600-LL. Contents and date unknown, October 27, 1967 | |||||||||