The New York Times has just published an obituary for Dr. George J. Armelagos, who served at UF in the early 1990s as Department Chair. In honor of this talented physical anthropologist, we’d like to share the following from the article:
Professor Armelagos (pronounced ar-MEL-ah-gos) was no osteomancer, as one who would divine the future by studying skeletal remains is known. Instead, the professor, a distinguished anthropologist who died on May 15 at 77, studied bones to divine the past.
Professor Armelagos taught at the University of Utah before taking a post at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he remained for more than 20 years. Afterward, he taught at the University of Florida, and in 1993 he joined the faculty at Emory, later becoming chairman of the anthropology department.