Byron Cummings Dean of Southwest Archaeology

By Todd W. Boswick

Copyright 2006

350 pages,black-on-white photos, hardcover

Contents:

• The Life of Byron Cummings
• Early Life in New York and New Jerssey
• Cummings at the University of Utah
• The Utah Society of the Archaeological Institute of America 1906-1909
• Adventures in Europe
• Return to the Red Rock Country1911-1914
• A Contronversy at the University of Utah
• teaching Archaeology 1912-1925
• Development of the Arizona State Museum
• Expeditions to Northern Arizona
• Uncovering the Cuicuilco Pyramid: 1922-1925
• The Silverbell Road Artifact Controversy 1924-1930
• Cummings and the Archaeology of the Sonoran Desert 1925-1938
• Cummings' 1926 Excavations into the Arizona Ice Age
• President of the University of Arizona 1927-1928
• The Arizona State Musuem 1927-1937
• The Arizona Antiquities Act of 1927
• Expandingthe Archaeology Department
• Excavtions in Northern Arizona 1927-1930
• Archaeology and Tourism in the Prescott and Verde River Regions
• Cummings Vision of an Outdoor Musuems Association
• Final Years at Kinishba 1938-1947
• Cummings the Writer and His Twilight Years
• Epilogue

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