Roderick Sprague

<p>Roderick Sprague III (February 18, 1933 – August 20, 2012) was an American <a href="/facts/Anthropologist/CboLlQq5">anthropologist</a>, ethnohistorian and historical <a href="/facts/Archaeology/K3Q5P38R">archaeologist</a>, and the emeritus Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Idaho/SREXLNYC">University of Idaho</a> in <a href="/facts/Moscow,_Idaho/Q9vvdljQ">Moscow</a>, where he taught for thirty years.  He had extensive experience in environmental impact research, trade beads, aboriginal burial customs, and the <a href="/facts/Columbia_River_Drainage_Basin/rE93euhG">Columbia Basin</a> area. 
Sprague was president of the Society of Bead Researchers from 2004 to 2007.
</p><p>In addition to his work in the traditional anthropological fields, he also collaborated with Professor <a href="/facts/Grover_Krantz/HnVxCIUk">Grover Krantz</a> in an attempt to apply scientific reasoning to the study of <a href="/facts/Sasquatch/htf6c98P">Sasquatch</a>.
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Roderick Sprague