Byron Cummings, known to students and colleagues as "The Dean," had a profound influence on the archaeology of Arizona and Utah during its early development. An explorer, archaeologist, anthropologist, teacher, museum director, university administrator, and state parks commissioner, Cummings was involved in many important discoveries in the American Southwest over the first half of the twentieth century and was a pioneer in the education of generations of archaeologists and anthropologists. This book presents the first ...
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Byron Cummings, known to students and colleagues as "The Dean," had a profound influence on the archaeology of Arizona and Utah during its early development. An explorer, archaeologist, anthropologist, teacher, museum director, university administrator, and state parks commissioner, Cummings was involved in many important discoveries in the American Southwest over the first half of the twentieth century and was a pioneer in the education of generations of archaeologists and anthropologists. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of Cummings' life, offering readers a greater understanding of his trailblazing work. Todd Bostwick elucidates Cummings' many intellectual and cultural contributions, investigates the controversies in which he was embroiled, and describes his battles to wrest control of Arizona archaeology from eastern institutions that had long dominated Southwest archaeology. Cummings saw the Southwest as an American wilderness where the story of cultural development revealed by the archaeologist and anthropologist was as important as it was in Europe. Bostwick's meticulous account of his life reflects his great reverence for the region and pays tribute to a man whose dedication, mentoring, and friendship have forever sealed his place as The Dean.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0816524777. Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good + dust jacket; jacket has mild edge wear including slight bumping and one short, closed tear.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 368 pages.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 350pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Absolutely pristine first edition of this biography of the legendary man of many firsts (1860-1954)--first director of the Arizona State Museum, first director of the Department of Archaeology at University of Arizona (which he also served as ninth president), founder of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society--and boldly signed by Bostwick, a fellow famed Arizona archaeologist, in purple ballpoint on title page.
