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David Judson Hally (born April 16, 1940) is an American archaeologist known for his work at several southeastern sites. He retired from theUniversity of Georgia in 2010 and currently resides inAthens, Georgia.
Hally was born on April 16, 1940, inNatick, Massachusetts. He attendedDartmouth for his undergraduate degree and was one of the first two students at Dartmouth to graduate with a major inanthropology. He then received his master's degree and PhD in anthropology fromHarvard University. He wrote his 1972 dissertation on his fieldwork from 1963 to 1964 in theTensas Basin in northeasternLouisiana.
Hally was appointed assistant professor at theUniversity of Georgia in 1967. He worked there on various projects including one of his most important works, theKing site, where he worked in 1974 and again from 1992 to 1993. His work most often pertains toMississippian life in chiefdoms of the southeastern United States and the pottery associated with these chiefdoms. He has multiple publications[1] includingPottery Form and Function in American Antiquity published in 1986, and papers published separately in 1993 and 1996 describingchiefdoms.
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