# Neil Judd

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**Neil Merton Judd** (October 27, 1887 – December 19, 1976) was an American [archaeologist](/source/Archeology) who studied under both [Byron Cummings](/source/Byron_Cummings) and [Edgar Lee Hewett](/source/Edgar_Lee_Hewett). He was the long-term curator of archaeology at the [United States National Museum](/source/United_States_National_Museum), part of the [Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution). He is noted for his discovery and excavation of ruins left by the [Ancestral Pueblo People](/source/Ancestral_Pueblo_People) (also known as [Anasazi](/source/Anasazi)) of the [Four Corners](/source/Four_Corners) area, especially sites located within [Chaco Canyon](/source/Chaco_Canyon), a region located within the now-arid [San Juan Basin](/source/San_Juan_Basin) of northwestern [New Mexico](/source/New_Mexico). He headed the first federally backed archeological expeditions sent to Chaco Canyon, excavating the key ruins of [Pueblo Bonito](/source/Pueblo_Bonito) and Pueblo del Arroyo.[1] He was also a member of the [1909 expedition that publicized Utah's Rainbow Bridge](/source/Rainbow_Bridge_National_Monument#History).[2]

## Citations

1. Strutin 1994, pp. 20–24.

1. Smith, Watson (2017). "Review of *Men Met Along the Trail: Adventures in Archaeology* by Neil M. Judd". *American Antiquity*. **35** (3): 391. [doi:10.2307/278353](https://doi.org/10.2307/278353). [ISSN 0002-7316](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0002-7316). [JSTOR 278353](https://www.jstor.org/stable/278353)

## References

- Brew, JO (1978), "Neil Merton Judd, 1887–1976", *American Anthropologist*. **80** (2): 352–354, [doi:10.1525/aa.1978.80.2.02a00060](https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1978.80.2.02a00060)
- Strutin, M (1994), [*Chaco: A Cultural Legacy*](https://archive.org/details/chacoculturalleg0000stru), Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, ISBN 978-1-877856-45-7

## Further reading

- Neil M. Judd, *Men Met along the Trail: Adventures in Archaeology*, 1968, University of Oklahoma Press. Judd's professional memoirs.
- [Chaco Culture National Historical Park: A Brief History of Investigations & Excavations in Chaco Canyon: 1877 to Present](https://web.archive.org/web/20070922074212/http://www.nps.gov/archive/chcu/excavate.htm)
- [Register to the Papers of Neil Merton Judd](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015017480008;view=1up;seq=11), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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