Richard E. W. Adams, editor. The Origins of Maya Civilization. (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1977. Pp. xvi, 465. $20.00

1978 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
American Research

Edgar Lee Hewett

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Fisher
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Southern California ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
American Research ◽  
And Training ◽  
Museum Of New Mexico

We are called upon to record the loss of one of the last of the “early greats” in American Archaeology, Edgar Lee Hewett, who took his eternal place on December 31, 1946 with his illustrious contemporaries in the science— Lewis H. Morgan, Frederic W. Putnam, J. Wesley Powell, William H. Holmes, J. Walter Fewkes, Adolf F. Bandelier, Alice C. Fletcher, and Charles F. Lummis. Philosopher, teacher, world traveler and explorer, Doctor Hewett leaves an enviable record which includes: the founding and direction for thirty-seven years of the Archaeological Institute's School of American Research; the establishment of departments of anthropology in two leading universities (University of New Mexico and University of Southern California); the building of two important museums (Museum of New Mexico and San Diego Museum); the development and training of several distinguished professional archaeologists; and the endowment of “The Humanities” with numerous essays, papers, and books comprising more than two hundred titles—archaeological, philosophical, sociological, historical, and pedagogical—readable yet scholarly.

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