Lectureship for Outstanding Research in 1972. The Society for American Archaeology awarded Griffin the Fryxell Award for excellence in interdisciplinary research in 1980 and the Distinguished Service Award in 1984. He served as the director of the Museum of Anthropology of Michigan from 1946-1975. He organized and managed the Ceramic Repository for the Eastern United States, a central source of information and collections about prehistoric pottery based out of the University of Michigan. He and H.R. Crane founded the University’s Radiocarbon Laboratory that was in operation from 1949-1970. He served many years in the Council of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. He was considered the premier Eastern North American ceramics expert by many of his colleagues. He wrote more than 260 articles and eight books about ceramics and applying other sciences to archaeology. Altogether, Griffin was among the most honored archaeologists of his generation. Selected publications (1937) The Archaeological Remains of the Chiwere Sioux (1937) The Chronological Position and Ethnological Relationships of the Fort Ancient Aspect (American Antiquity, Vol. 2, No. 4) (1942) Adena Pottery (1942) On the Historic Location of the Tutelo and the Mohetan in the Ohio Valley (1945) An Interpretation of Siouan Archaeology in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia (1945) The Box Elder Mound in la Salle County, Illinois (1953) Archeological Survey In the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947 (1955) Chronology and Dating Process (1967) Eastern North American Archaeology: A Summary. Science... (1969) Identification of the Sources of Hopewellian Obsidian in the Middle West (1985) An Individual's Participation in American Archaeology, 1928-1985 (1985) The Formation of the Society for American Archaeology References Bentley Historic Library (University of Michigan) James B. Griffin Anthrosource: American Anthropologist: James B. Griffin 1905-97 eMuseum @ Minnesota State University Mankato: James B. Griffin Society for American Archaeology: James Bennett Griffin "Anthropology and Archaeology." Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan. 2008. Bentley Historical Library. 8 Mar 2008 Ford, Richard. "James Bennett Griffin." American Anthropologist Vol. 104, No. 202 DEC 2004 635-637. 08 MAR 2008. “James Bennett Griffin." eMuseum at Minnesota State University, Mankato. 2003. Students in an Introduction to Anthropology Class, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota 2003. 8 Mar 2008 Williams, Stephen. "James B. Griffin (1905-1997)." Society for American Archaeology. SAA. 8 Mar 2008 External links National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir Pre-Columbian scholars 1905 births 1997 deaths University of Chicago alumni University of Michigan faculty People from Atchison,