Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Tozzer has been noted as both an anthropologist and an archaeologist, and is an authority on the ancient peoples of Central America, particularly the Mayas. He has been connected with the University for more than forty years, and is an associate of Dunster House...
...Archaeologist Morley thinks that the Maya, rather than the Inca, were the first of the New World people to cultivate corn. Out of this skill and the sedentary rooted life it led to, they evolved their extraordinary culture. Just when the Maya flowering began he can merely guess at, but by the dawn of the Christian era there was probably already a considerable Maya civilization in what is now the Guatemala Department...
What other race did so much, so long, with so little, asks Archaeologist Morley proudly? Not the Incas or Aztecs, he says -and probably not the Egyptians, Persians, .Greeks, Romans, Chinese...
...shown in several of Agatha Christie's thrillers (Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile) was acquired at firsthand, as her first travel book now proves. It is a breezy, completely unsinister tale of a couple of winters she spent before the war in Syria, where her husband, Archaeologist Max Mallowan of the British Museum, went...
Runes & Ruins. One of the unusual facts about Holand's crusade is that the ideas involved are by no means out-&-out moonshine. Some of them may be sound, at least in substance, and reputable U.S. scholars (e.g., the late archaeologist Philip Ainsworth Means) have said as much publicly. Holand is fighting a case for history, not mythology or revelation. His firm belief: 1) Norse explorers repeatedly visited America before Columbus; 2) the Kensington Stone proves that some of them got as far west as Minnesota...