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William Andrew McDonald
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William Andrew "Bill" McDonald (April 26, 1913 – January 11, 2000) was a Canadian archaeologist.
McDonald was born in Ontario, Canada. In 1935, he graduated from the University of Toronto (where he also played rugby union and hockey) with first-class honors in classical studies. In 1936, McDonald received his master's degree in ancient history from the same university. He studied classical archaeology at Johns Hopkins University and received his Ph.D. in 1940.
His dissertation entitled The Political Meeting Places of the Greeks is still regarded as an important fundamental study of Ancient Greek public architecture.
From 1938 until 1939, McDonald was a student of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and participated in excavations at Pylos and Olynthos. At Pylos, he was placed in charge of supervising the day-to-day excavation by Carl Blegen, and was on hand when the first Linear B tablets were discovered at the site on April 3, 1939; along with Blegen, he spent several days excavating them by hand, receiving his director's tribute in the excavation write-up for his 'circumspection, perseverance and long-suffering in spending so many days on his hands and knees in positions of extreme discomfort.' McDonald returned to Pylos when excavations, interrupted by the outbreak of war in Europe, resumed in 1952, and remained until 1953, when Blegen convinced him to focus his efforts towards surveying the territory comprising the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Pylos.
During this time, McDonald undertook his first of many interdisciplinary projects whereby he collected modern place-names across southwest Greece.
In 1958, McDonald began to collaborate with Richard Hope Simpson, who was then conducting an archaeological survey of Laconia. In 1961, McDonald led the establishment of the University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition, which emphasized the interdisciplinary rather than multidisciplinary collaboration between archaeologists, natural scientists, social scientists, and anthropologists.
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