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With the return to a peace-time economy, university enrollment and faculty appointments grew. Following Alfred Kroeber's retirement in 1946, archaeologist Robert F. Heizer was hired. A Berkeley doctorate, Heizer substantially increased the collections in California and Nevada archaeology during the 1950s. At the same time, with the gradual expansion of American anthropology beyond Native America, the museum's collections grew in new areas, such as Latin America, Africa, and Oceania.
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