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sometimes referred to as the Bullen Medal, was established by the
University of Florida to honor outstanding students within the archeological field. The Bullen Award is given in honor of Ripley P. Bullen for his work with the Florida Museum. The recipients of the Bullen Award are chosen by the Florida Museum's university teaching committee. The award is bestowed to students involved with or conducting museum based research for excellence in research of the anthropology of Florida and the Caribbean Basin.
220:. A few years later, in 1929, they married. The couple raised two sons, Dana Ripley II and Pierce Kendall. Bullen was also a grandfather of four. Mrs. Bullen worked alongside her husband on numerous projects including the founding of their publishing company, Kendall Books. She also researched and wrote articles with her husband.
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Floridian prehistory to aid fellow archaeologists with point classification. The first report of Bullen's Florida projectile point classification was presented to the Florida Anthropological Society in 1967. The presentation went so well
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Bullen guided the department as chairman for seventeen years until his retirement in 1973. Although officially retired, he continued to work and was honored as
Curator Emeritus at the University of Florida in 1976. The "Bullen Medal for outstanding future anthropologists" was established in his honor
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Florida, where he accepted an offer to become an assistant archaeologist for the Florida Board of Park and Historic Memorials. A few years later, the Florida Museum of Natural History established an Anthropology Department, and Bullen became
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Kendall Books, a company formed together
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Doctorate of Science by the University of Florida. This honorary degree was in recognition of his many contributions to the archaeological world, especially work completed in Florida and for the university. In the same year the Ripley P. Bullen award,
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Department of Social Sciences at the Florida Museum of Natural History. While chairing the department, Bullen participated in a number of excavations sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation and the
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quarry in 1939. Bullen's first jump into professional archeology was as an organizer for the
Massachusetts Archaeological Society, where he would give numerous presentations about his work and findings to that organization and at meetings of the
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its first archaeologist. With the creation of the department, many of Bullen's excavation collections as well as other collections and records from the
Florida Park Service were relocated to the Museum of Natural History.
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General Electric Company for fifteen years, Bullen left his job to professionally pursue archaeology. He worked for the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology at
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408:"Excavations in Northeastern Massachusetts" 1949 (Ripley P. Bullen). Papers of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Philips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
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452:"Ceramic periods of St. Thomas and St. John islands, Virgin Islands". 1962. (Ripley P. Bullen). The William L. Bryant Foundation, American Studies, Report 4.
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411:"The Safety Harbor site, Pinellas County, Florida". 1950. (Ripley P. Bullen and J.W. Griffin). Florida Anthropological Society, Publications 2. (42 pp.)
384:"Further notes on the Dolly Bond steatite quarry". 1940. (Ripley P. Bullen). Society for American Archaeology, Notebook, November, pp. 158–160.
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534:"Were there pre-Columbian cultural contacts between Florida and the West Indies: the archaeological evidence". 1974. (Ripley P. Bullen).
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guide of Florida's prehistoric cultures, which was first published in 1968. This became his most notable and most widely cited work.
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with his wife. The Bullen Projectile Point Typology remains a key tool for Florida and southeastern archaeologists.
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472:"Two ancient Florida dugout canoes". 1967. (Ripley P. Bullen and H.K. Brooks).
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485:"Beveled stemmed points from Tampa Bay". 1969. (Ripley P. Bullen).
428:"Certain small triangular arrow points". 1951. (Ripley P. Bullen).
458:"Archaeological chronology of Grenada". 1965. (Ripley P. Bullen).
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387:"An anthropological world". 1942. (Ripley P. Bullen).
421:"History along route AlA". 1951. (Ripley P. Bullen).
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