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Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Coon attended post secondary education at Harvard University, earning his A.B., A.M., and Ph. D. (1928). He taught at Harvard until resigning in 1948 to become Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania up to 1963. He also became Curator of Ethnology at the University Museum in Philadelphia. Coon was active in both archaeology and cultural/physical anthropology. He conducted controversial studies of the origins and modern variations of human racial types. His region of specialization was North Africa and the Near East. He worked in MoroccoAl Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah In Detail( Full size) Official language Arabic Capital Rabat Largest City Casablanca King Mohammed VI Prime Minister Driss Jettou Area Total Ranked 56th 446,550 km˛ Population Total (2003) Density31,689,267 70/km˛ Ranked 36th In in 1925Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 See also 1925 in aviation 1925 in film 1925 in literature 1925 in mu- 1928Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1928 in aviation 1928 in film 1928 in literature 1928 in mu, 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26, 1947Events January January 1 British mines nationalized January 1 Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time. January 10 United Na, and 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e- 1963.
His books include The Origins of Race (1962), The Story of Man (1954), The Races of Europe (1939), Races: A Study of the Problems of Race Formation in Man, The Hunting Peoples, Living Races of Man (1965), Seven Caves: Archaeological Exploration in the Middle East, Adventures and Discoveries: The Autobiography of Carleton S. Coon (1981), Mountains of Giants: A Racial and Cultural Study of the North Albanian Mountain Ghegs, Yengema Cave Report (his work in Sierra Leone), and Caravan: the Story of the Middle East (1958). A North Africa Story (1980) is an account of his work during World War II.
Starting in the late 1950sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. Coon's work increasingly attracted the ire of younger anthropologists, most notably Ashley MontaguAshley Montagu ( 1905 1999), was an English anthropologist and humanist who chose to direct his numerous published studies on the significant relationship of mother and infant to the general public. The humanizing effects of touch informed the studies of, who believed it essentially racist. However, Coon's work was characterized by careful, fully documented field observation and measurement while that of his detractors was often based essentially on abstraction driven by social ideals. As of the turn of the millennium, Coon's opponents have effectively brought the newer generations of students to their view and race is widely held by them to be useless in any formal taxonomic sense. But concurrent expansion in the use of the terms " ethnic group" or " ethnic origin" and the substitution of the term "population" as a near synonym for "race" in many contexts show how difficult it will be to eradicate all notions of sub-specific human classification.
Coon's hypothesis that modern humans, Homo sapiens, arose five separate times from Homo erectus in five separate places, "as each subspecies, living in its own territory, passed a critical threshold from a more brutal to a more sapient state", thus providing origins in deep time for his five races of mankind, no longer has wide currency among scholars. See Multi-regional origin for a discussion of theories of this type.
Coon served in the US Air Force in 1956- 1957 and in the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. His work with the OSS in the early 1940s involved espionage and the smuggling of arms to French resistance groups in German-occupied Morocco under the guise of anthropological fieldwork, a controversial practice generally condemned by practicing anthropologists. These contributions to the war effort were dangerous, and he was wounded several times while carrying them out.
Coon was a member of the National Academy of Science and served as President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 1961 to 1962. He resigned his post as President in disgust after the association voted to censure the book Race and Reason: A Yankee view by Carleton Putnam , which argued against racial desegregation, even though most of the members present admitted to not having actually read it.
Coon died on June 6, 1981, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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