Grover Krantz
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Grover Krantz (1931 - 2002) was an anthropologist at Washington State University.
His specialty as a researcher and teacher was physical anthropology, including all aspects of human evolution, but he was best known outside of academia as the first serious academic to devote his professional energies to the scientific study of bigfoot. His studies of bigfoot (which he called "sasquatch," after the native term) led him to theorize that this was an actual creature; specifically, a surviving population of gigantopithecines. He was a defender of the authenticity of the Patterson-Gimlin film, and investigated the Skookum body cast. Krantz advocated the killing of a bigfoot for scientific study, if one could be located.
He was also drawn in to the Kennewick Man controversy, arguing that direct lineage to extant human populations could not be demonstrated.
Among his works on sasquatch are:
- The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague)
- The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch II (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1979, also with Roderick Sprague)
- The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids (Calgary: Western Publishing, 1984, with archaeologist Vladimir Markotic)
- Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (Seattle: Hancock House (http://www.hancockhouse.com/products/bigsas.htm), 1999 ISBN 0888394470)
- Several scholarly papers, published in Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Non-sasquatch works:
- Climatic Races and Descent Groups (1980 ISBN 0815803907)
- The Antiquity of Race (1981, 1994, 1998)
- The Process of Human Evolution (1982, 1995, ASIN 0870733478)
- Geography Development of European Languages (1988, ASIN 082040800X)