[1] He also completed fieldwork in the American Southwest, the New England states, Central America, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
[2] Mrs. Bullen worked alongside her husband on numerous projects including the founding of their publishing company, Kendall Books.
Finding time between being a father and his paying job at GE, he managed to participate in his first excavation at a steatite quarry in 1939.
In 1940, after working for the General Electric Company for fifteen years, Bullen left his job to professionally pursue archaeology.
While in that position, Bullen took part in the University of New Mexico's archaeology field school studies in Chaco Canyon.
[1] Bullen rose to some prominence through his many published articles during his time with the Robert S. Peabody Foundation, where he created the basic cultural chronology for eastern Massachusetts.
While chairing the department, Bullen participated in a number of excavations sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation and the National Park Service in St. John and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A few years later, Bullen began to compile research for a projectile point guide of Florida's prehistoric cultures, which was first published in 1968.
In addition to being editor of a major anthropological journal, Bullen was the author of more than two hundred books, monographs and articles.
[3] The presentation went so well that the projectile point classification system which started as a reference guide grew to a small monograph and was then published by the Florida Museum of Natural History in 1968.
In the introduction of his collection, Bullen stated, "students of projectile points wished considerably more detailed information than had been originally contemplated.