- Term
Edwin F. Walker
- Alternate Term
Walker, Edwin F.
Walker, Mr. Edwin F. (attributed to)
Walker, Mr. Edwin F.?
Edwin Francis Walker
- Occupation/Role
Full-time research assistant at the Southwest Museum and later investigator of archaeological finds in construction sites in California. Early on, Walker was a gold miner and adventurer before he settled into a career in garment retail in Chicago and then Los Angeles. He then moved into real estate sales and tried to launch a pottery factory. He began his archaeological career in his sixties.
- Nationality/Ethnicity
United States of America
- Geography
Chicago, Illinois: New Mexico; Los Angeles, California
- Date
December 13, 1872 - December 3, 1956
- Remarks
In 1934, Edwin Francis Walker began his work as an archaeologist, as research assistant at the Southwest Museum. The director then was Walker’s sometime neighbor, Frederick Webb Hodge. For 22 years, and practically until his death, Walker was a main investigator for the museum when construction digging revealed archaeological sites across California. The specialty was known as salvage archaeology. Walker published several works, including Five Prehistoric Archeological Sites in Los Angeles County, his most notable, in 1952. It describes five important southern California archaeological sites excavated 1936-1945. Walker died at his Flintridge home on Dec. 3, 1956, just months after retiring from museum work.
- See Also
Chatsworth Cairn Site, CA-LAn-21 (archaeological site)
Malaga Cove Site, CA-LAn-138 (archaeological site)
Big Tujunga Wash Site, CA-LAn-167 (archaeological site)