Timeline of anthropology, 1940–1949
Events
1940
The oldest known North American mummy, Spirit Cave Man, is excavated
Prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves are discovered
1949
The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is founded at Yale University
Publications
1940
Race, Language and Culture, by Franz BoasAfrican Political Systems, ed. by Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard 1944The People of Alor by Cora Du BoisConfigurations of Culture Growth by Alfred KroeberThe Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi 1949The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph CampbellLes structures élémentaires de la parenté (The Elementary Structures of Kinship''), by Claude Lévi-Strauss