 He mentions these innovations in his paper on “Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison.” He speaks of the new aids to anthropological research such as radiocarbon dating, genetics, and the experimental method which are just a few of the many rapid technological advances that had taken place to aid the discipline in this time.Eggan married Dorothy Way in 1938; she was also an anthropologist of the Hopi.Fred died in his house in Santa Fe, New Mexico from heart failure on May 7, 1991; he was 84.