William Laurens Rathje (born July 1, 1945) is an American archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and is consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University. He was the longtime director of the Garbage Project, which studied trends in discards by field research in Tucson, Arizona, and in landfills elsewhere.
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- William Laurens Rathje (born July 1, 1945) is an American archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and is consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University. He was the longtime director of the Garbage Project, which studied trends in discards by field research in Tucson, Arizona, and in landfills elsewhere. Rathje received his PhD in anthropology from Harvard University in 1971. His academic interests have been archaeology, early civilizations, modern material culture studies, and Mesoamerica. He first became known as director of the National Geographic-sponsored Cozumel Archaeological Project --which established Cozumel's significance as an Olmec and Mayan port of trade. With his students at the University of Arizona, Rathje began Le Projet du Garbàge in 1973, sorting waste at Tucson's landfill. Early results showed that Tucson residents discarded 10 per cent of the food they purchased and that middle-income households wasted more food than the poor or wealthy. He received the 1990 Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "his innovative contributions to public understanding of science and its societal impacts by demonstrating with his creative 'Garbage Project' how the scientific method can document problems and identify solutions. " He is the grand nephew of Frank C. Rathje. Dr. Rathje lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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- William Laurens Rathje (born July 1, 1945) is an American archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and is consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University. He was the longtime director of the Garbage Project, which studied trends in discards by field research in Tucson, Arizona, and in landfills elsewhere.
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