Howard Barraclough Fell (1917 - 1994)

Born 6 Jun 1917 in Lewes, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Died 21 Apr 1994 at age 76 in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

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Biography

Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell) (June 6, 1917 – April 21, 1994) was born in Lewes, Sussex, England, and was a grandson of the railway engineer and inventor John Barraclough Fell. He moved with his mother to New Zealand in the early 1920s after his father, who was a merchant seaman, died in a shipboard fire.^[1]

He returned to the British Isles for graduate work, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1941. Fell then served with the British Army during World War II. In 1946 he returned to New Zealand, where he resumed his academic career, and lectured in zoology at Victoria University of Wellington.^[2]

A world authority on fossil sea urchins, he was recruited by Harvard University in 1964, and emigrated to the United States to join the staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard where he worked until retirement in 1979.^[3]

Fell was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. While his primary professional research included starfish and sea urchins, Fell is best known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy, arguing that various inscriptions in the Americas are best explained by extensive pre-Columbian contact with Old World civilizations. His writings on epigraphy and archaeology are generally rejected by those mainstream scholars who have considered them.^[4]

Barry Fell is the author of;

America B.C.

Saga America

Bronze Age America

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia, Barry Fell
2. ↑ Wikipedia, Barry Fell
3. ↑ Wikipedia, Barry Fell
4. ↑ Wikipedia, Barry Fell

• Wikipedia, Barry Fell
• The Equinox Project
• Howard Barraclough Fell