Gordon Randolph Willey (1913 - 2002) was an American archaeologist famous for his fieldwork in South and Central America as well as the southeastern United States. Regarded as one of the leading figures in 20th-century archaeology, Willey had a profound influence on the development and practice of archaeology in the Americas and has been described by colleagues as the "dean" of New World archaeology. A graduate of the University of Arizona and with a doctorate from Columbia, he conducted surveys and excavations in Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and the...