Emeline Hill Richardson (6 June 1910 in Buffalo, New York, USA - 29 August 1999 in Durham, North Carolina) was a notable classical archaeologist and Etruscan scholar. She studied at Radcliffe College, receiving an A.B. in 1932 and an M.A. in 1935. In 1935/36 she studied with Bernard Ashmole at the University of London. She completed her Ph.D. in 1939 at Radcliffe College. From 1941-1949 she was on the faculty of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. In 1950 Emeline Hill Richardson held a stipend at the American Academy in Rome and was involved in the Cosa excavations. She married Lawrence Richardson in 1952. She lectured both at Stanford and Yale Universities. June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Aerial view of downtown Buffalo, New York Buffalo is an American city in western New York. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... City nickname: City of Medicine Location Government Country State County United States North Carolina Durham County Mayor Bill Bell Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 94. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... See: Etruscan civilization Etruscan language Etruscan alphabet Etruscan mythology See also: Tyrrhenian, Lemnian, Pelasgian. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... Wheaton College is the name of two colleges in the United States: Wheaton College, Illinois Wheaton College, Massachusetts External Links Wheaton College (Illinois) Wheaton College (Massachusetts) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Norton is a town located in Bristol County, Massachusetts. ... The American Academy in Rome is an arts institution, founded in the late 19th century by American composer Edward MacDowell and others. ... ...

From 1968 until 1979 she was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The primary focus of her research was the civilization of the Etruscans. She was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philological Association and a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI). In 1993 she received the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education (and arguably the oldest public institution) in the United States. ... The American Philological Association, founded in 1869, is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to classical studies in language, literature, and history, especially of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. ...

Publications

1. Brown, Frank Edward - Richardson, Emeline - Richardson, Lawrence, Cosa II: the temples of the Arx (Rome 1960).
2. Richardson, Emeline, The Etruscans: their art and civilization (Chicago 1964).
3. Richardson, Emeline, Etruscan Votive Bronzes: Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic (Mainz 1983).
4. Brown, Frank Edward – Hill Richardson, Emeline - Richardson, Lawrence, Cosa III: the buildings of the forum; colony, municipium, and village (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press 1993).

Obituary

• AJA 104, 2000, 125 (L. Richardson, Jr.)