George Byron Gordon

[2] After his time in Honduras, George Byron Gordon was hired by the University of Pennsylvania where he led two expeditions to Alaska in 1905 and 1907.

[3] In 1927 Gordon was the Director of expeditions in Beisan (or Bet Sh’ean), known at the time as Mesopotamia, as well as Ur (located in Iraq).

[3] Gordon suffered fatal injuries from an accident that occurred at the Philadelphia Racquet Club, and he died on January 30, 1927, at the age of 56.

[3] With two companions the archeologist had attended a dinner of the Wilderness Club to hear Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Kermit describe their recent game hunt on the Tibetan highlands.

[4] In 1903, Gordon was named Assistant Curator of the Section of General Ethnology at the Free Museum of Science and Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

[3] From 1907 to 1915, George Byron Gordon taught undergraduate and graduate Anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania on a regular schedule.

He purchased fine artifacts for the Museum, and supervised the addition of collections from Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, and the Continental Americas.

[3] In 1891, George B. Gordon started his archaeological career as a graduate student at Harvard University under the guidance of John G. Owens in Copan, Honduras.

Due to political turmoil in Honduras as well as an expired permit, the excavations ended in 1901, and Gordon returned to the United States to publish his results.

Gordon collected 300 items, including hunting and fishing tools, snowshoes, baskets, wooden buckets, lamps, earrings, and clothing.