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EMIL WALTER HAURY
EMIL WALTER HAURY
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He went to Arizona in 1925 to stucly with Byron Cummings (~860-1954) , who had been exploring cliff dwellings in southern Utah en c!
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antiquarian founciations laid by Cummings and others and following the scientific leads of Kidder, developed an understanding of southwestern prehistory that continues to be the basis of our perception of the region today. He devoted his long and productive career to clevelopment of field!
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Latin, EmiT's father was a highly respected faculty member who servec! Bethel College in many capacities for thirtythree years.
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high school at the Bethel Academy from 1919 to 1923. He went on to Bethel College for two years en c!
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After graduating from Newton High School in 1921 en c! completing two years at Bethel College, HuIcia taught elementary school in Brewster en c!
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near the Black Sea. When the policy on military service changed, large numbers of Mennonites migrates!
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in hislancimark excavation of the Canyon Creek ruin proviclec! the first significant contribution to the theory of archaeological tree-ring ciating theory, clemonstratec!
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his wealth en c! intellect to an almost feverish effort to survey the entire region, formulate new problems, challenge established positions, excavate key sites, and publish results in a timely manner.
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Glac~win's intellectual charisma en c! the prospect of extensive field work with prompt publication were important considerations.
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the Mogollon culture of the mountain zone of the Southwest en c! gave substance to Glac~win's Hohokam culture of the southern Arizona desert in the pages of the Medallion Papers publisher!
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After the full retirement of Cummings the following year, Haury was promoted to professor and annointed director of the Arizona State Museum. 1 1 UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA When Emil assumed the leadership role at Arizona, the university was a small land-grant institution, the state was a cattle-raising and mining frontier, and the nation was in the grip of the Great Depression.
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He was a consummate field archaeologist. His many years of varied field experience coupled with his superb observational skills gave him a unique ability to extract fascinating bits of information from the most recalcitrant of archaeological contexts.
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training programs throughout the country. THE ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM As director of the Arizona State Museum, Haury facet!
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in 1950 gave its collections en c! assets to the Arizona State Museum, more than cloubling the museum's holdings of prehistoric southwestern ceramics.
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This bequest enablec! Haury to establish the Arizona State Museum Library, which has benefited!
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leaclership in the early sixties for many of the activities of the National Academy of Sciences, influencer! fecleral conservation policy as a member of Interior Secretary Stuart Uciall's National Park Service Advisory Board, en c!
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in the cliff dwellings en c! pueblos of the northern periphery of the region was thought to be characteristic of the entire region, possibly cliTutec!
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His excavation of the Cienega Creek site at Point of Pines clemonstratec! the presence of Archaic peoples in the mountain zones possibly somewhat later than in the desert valleys.
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to Snaketown in 1964-65 in an effort to clarify such problems, but was unable to resolve those relating to the chronology of the earlier periods, despite pioneering work in archaeomagnetism. Although there was general acceptance for the Glac~winHaury iclea of a separate Hohokam culture, Haury's proposal of a Mogollon culture for the mountainous subregion between the desert en c!
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at Pecos National Monument on the sixty-fifth anniversary of his attendance as a student at the first Pecos Conference in 1927, symbolically closing the circle on his long and distinguished career.
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REFERENCES Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona, Tucson. Crown, P
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1934 The Canyon Creek ruin and the cliff dwellings of the Sierra Ancha. Medallion Pap.
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23:3-10. 1957 An alluvial site on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona.
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Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1985 Mogollon Culture in the Forestdale Valley, East-central Arizona.
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