![]() His writings on epigraphy and archaeology are generally rejected by those mainstream scholars who have considered them. NH, site was a nautical center where bronze age sea captains met. While his primary professional research included starfish and sea urchins, Fell is best known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy, arguing that various inscriptions in the Americas are best explained by extensive pre-Columbian contact with Old World civilizations. Amateur archaeologists following the tradition of Dr. įell was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. ![]() Ī world authority on fossil sea urchins, he was recruited by Harvard University in 1964, and emigrated to the United States to join the staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard where he worked until retirement in 1979. In 1946 he returned to New Zealand, where he resumed his academic career, and lectured in zoology at Victoria University of Wellington. Fell then served with the British Army during World War II. ![]() ![]() He returned to the British Isles for graduate work, receiving his Ph.D. He moved with his mother to New Zealand in the early 1920s after his father, who was a merchant seaman, died in a shipboard fire. ![]() Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell) (J– April 21, 1994) was born in Lewes, Sussex, England, and was a grandson of the railway engineer and inventor John Barraclough Fell. ![]()
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