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Ren\u00e9 Millon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ren\u00e9 Millon, a professor emeritus of anthropology at Rochester whose life\u2019s work was dedicated to mapping and excavating a historic pre-Columbian site in Mexico, is being remembered as a pioneer who influenced the study of ancient cultures and societies.<\/p>\n

For a quarter-century Millon spearheaded an international team of researchers who produced the first complete building-by-building map of Teotihuac\u00e1n, a 2,000-year-old city that lies 30 miles northeast of Mexico City.<\/p>\n

Although Millon \u201cofficially\u201d retired in 1986 at the mandatory age of 65\u2014at that time a federal law\u2014he continued to work on the Teotihuac\u00e1n project. \u201cI started going there in 1950,\u201d Millon said in 2012, \u201cand I haven\u2019t finished yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millon, who joined the University faculty in 1961, died February 22 at age 94.<\/p>\n

Known for its Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun, Teotihuac\u00e1n was the largest and most influential city of the pre-Columbian New World. Millon’s project involved the precise charting of an 8-square mile area of the partially buried city. Its use of comprehensive aerial photography was accompanied by surface surveys and the collection of about one million artifacts from some 5,000 sites within the mapped area.<\/p>\n

Mapping of the city and its environs included the discovery of several thousand ceremonial and residential structures (apartment compounds) that made up the ancient city. The project has formed the basis for all subsequent archaeological investigation at the site. Still an active research site, the project has involved scholars and scientists from universities in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Japan.<\/p>\n

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An example from the Teotihuac\u00e1n mapping project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI venture to say that this type of archaeology changed the study of these societies, from a study just of the elites to include all the people of a city,\u201d says Renato Perucchio, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the University\u2019s Archeology, Technology, and Historical Structures program. \u201cThere is no scholarly work on Teotihuac\u00e1n that talks about its urban development without referring to his work.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2001 Millon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2004 he and longtime collaborator George L. Cowgill of Arizona State University were awarded the A. V. Kidder Prize from the American Anthropological Association for eminence in the field of American archaeology.<\/p>\n

As a professor, Millon was noted for being deeply engaged with the work of his students, some of whom he continued to advise after leaving his full-time duties at the University.<\/p>\n

Millon earned his bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. Before Rochester he taught at the University of Southern California, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, and he was a research assistant at Yale University.<\/p>\n

Millon, a widower, is survived by his three children, David, Marc, and Michele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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