After Ann Morris graduated from Smith College, she married Earl Halstead Morris, and together they became the glamour couple of 1920s American archeology, living in a tent in Arizona's Canyon of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
The book to read about Southwest archaeology in the 1920s
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This book was a bestseller when it came out in the 1930s, and helped fuel a fad of interest in Southwest archaeology. Ann Axtell Morris wanted to be an archaeologist, so she married one. Her husband, Earl Morris, is the epitome of that era, dressing the part and doing the grunt work to preserve the buildings and walls, as well as removing the objects. Some of his methods are not just objectionable but totally offensive today, as you'll see in the photos of mummies of Indians being treated like objects. That was the awful reality of the times. Ann Axtell Morris went on the digs with him and wrote this fascinating memoir.
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