![]() While completing his doctoral degree, he worked during the summers for the Smithsonian Institute excavating and analyzing skeletal remains from Plains Indians sites. After completing his master’s degree, Bass chose to attend the University of Pennsylvania so that he could work with the renowned biological anthropologist Wilton Krogman. Upon returning to college to complete his master’s degree after serving in the army, he changed his major to anthropology under the mentorship of Charles E. Bass’s interest in anthropology began during his junior year of college when he took several courses taught by Clifford Evans. ![]() When Bass first entered graduate school at the University of Kentucky, he was seeking a master’s degree in psychology but his interest in this subject was short-lived with only one co-authored publication related to his studies of the effects of noise and vibration at the Army Medical Research Laboratory. Bass served for two years (1951–1953) in the US Army. ![]() Born in Staunton, Virginia, Bass received a BA in psychology from the University of Virginia in 1951, an MS in anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 1956, and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. “Bill” Bass (b. 1928) is a well-known forensic anthropologist made famous for creating the Anthropology Research Facility, colloquially known as the Body Farm, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ![]()
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