20th-century Mesoamericanists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Chapters: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Sylvanus Morley, Yuri Knorozov, Richard MacNeish, Matthew Stirling, Constantino Reyes-Valerio, Alfred L. Kroeber, Linda Schele, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Alfred V. Kidder, Tzvetan Todorov, Robert E. Lee Chadwick, David H. Kelley, R. H. Barlow, Robert N. Zeitlin, Miguel Covarrubias, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Floyd Lounsbury, Marcos E. Becerra, William Henry Holmes, Teoberto Maler, Ursula Cowgill, J. Eric S. Thompson, Alfred Tozzer, Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, Carl Sofus Lumholtz, Brant Gardner, Ross Hassig, Manuel Gamio, Adrián Recinos, Oliver La Farge, Janet Catherine Berlo, Jacques Soustelle, Eduardo Pareyón Moreno, Richard Diehl, Alfred Maudslay, Michael D. Coe, Una Canger, Lyle Campbell, Karl Taube, Thomas Barthel, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Christine Niederberger Betton, Gertrude Blom, Terrence Kaufman, Doris Heyden, Doris Zemurray Stone, Zelia Nuttall, Gordon Willey, John Savage Bolles, Robert von Heine-Geldern, Ronald Spores, Robert Redfield, Alfonso Caso y Andrade, David Carrasco, Jean Charlot, Merle Greene Robertson, Edward Herbert Thompson, Yolanda Lastra, AleS Hrdlicka, Nigel Davies, Inga Clendinnen, Stephen D. Houston, Peter Mathews, George Clapp Vaillant, Laurette Séjourné, Charles E. Dibble, Louise Burkhart, George Cowgill, Paul Kirchhoff, Arthur Demarest, Kay Warren, Miguel León-Portilla, Primo Feliciano Velázquez, Joseph Whitecotton, David Stuart, Karl Anton Nowotny, Charles S. Spencer, Doris Bartholomew, Napoleon Cordy, Frans Blom, Benjamin Keen, Anne Chapman, Karl Sapper, Norman Hammond, Charles C. Di Peso, William Bright, Vernon L. Scarborough, A. Ledyard Smith, Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Helen Perlstein Pollard, Richard D. Hansen, Nicholas J. Saunders, Thomas Gann, Alfredo López Austin, Robert Wauchope, Luz Jiménez, Felipe Solís Olguín, Ronald Langacker, Nora England, Richard Blanton, Pedro Armillas, H. B. Nicholson, Robert Sharer, William Duncan Strong, Mary Miller, Arthur G. Miller, George Kubler, Joyce Marcus, David Grove, James Lockhart, Giles Healey, Philip Phillips, Ian Graham, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Robert M. Carmack, David Freidel, Galina Yershova, Thelma D. Sullivan, Dennis Tedlock, Stafford Poole, Eloise Quiñones Keber, Kent V. Flannery, Munro S. Edmonson, Ángel María Garibay K., John E. Clark, Marshall Howard Saville, Frances Karttunen, Michael E. Smith, William R. Coe, Evon Z. Vogt, Anthony Aveni, Ignacio Bernal, Konrad Theodor Preuss, Matthew Restall, Søren Wichmann, Caterina Magni, John E. Teeple, John Alden Mason, Suzanna Miles, William E. Gates, Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla, Charles Gibson, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan D. Gillespie, Maarten Jansen, Elizabeth P. Benson, Heather McKillop, Rafael García Granados, Ernst Mengin. Excerpt: Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883 - September 2, 1948) was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar who made significant contributions toward the study of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early twentieth century. Morley is particularly noted for the extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza that he directed on behalf of the Carnegie Institution. He also published several large compilations and treatises on Maya hieroglyphic writing, and wrote popular accounts on the Maya for a general audience. To his contemporaries, "Vay" Morley was one of the leading Mesoamerican archaeologists of his day. Although more recent developments in the field have resulted in...