High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ripley Pierce Bullen (1902–1976) was Curator Emeritus at the Florida State Museum at the University of Florida where he was the Department Chair of Social Sciences for a period of seventeen years (1956–1973). He was an archaeologist primarily associated with Southeastern United States and Florida, and in his later years was known as the "dean of Floridian archaeology". He also completed fieldwork in the American Southwest, the New England states, Central America, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles.