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James W. Cambron

A printer by trade and an archaeologist by passion, this Alabama researcher helped shape how stone tools and projectile points in the Southeast were identified and discussed. His work grew out of years of field study and practical collecting, making it useful to both specialists and serious amateurs.

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Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types

Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types

by James W. Cambron, David C. Hulse

About the author

James W. Cambron was an Alabama archaeologist and author whose best-known work includes Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types, written with David C. Hulse, as well as Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter Excavations. The University of Alabama's Alabama Authors project describes him as a printer who was also an active avocational archaeologist, and notes that he served in World War II before building a long record of archaeological work and writing.

His publications and archived papers show a sustained interest in prehistoric sites, fluted points, rock shelters, and artifact classification in the Tennessee Valley and across Alabama. The preface to Handbook of Alabama Archaeology credits him as a collaborator and chief contributor in carrying forward an important projectile-point classification project, and records in tDAR list dozens of reports and articles connected to his name.

He also took on leadership roles in archaeology groups, serving as president of a local archaeological society chapter and of the Alabama State Archaeological Society. According to the Alabama Authors entry, he was recognized as a Master Archaeologist by the Guild of American Prehistorians and died on September 23, 1982.