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- Title: Glimpses of the Young Emil Haury.
- Author : Journal of the Southwest
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 159 KB
Description
Archaeologists normally deal with miserable scraps of evidence that are found under desperate conditions of preservation. Successful practitioners, therefore, must have keen powers of observation. Emil Haury was one of the leading archaeologists of the last century precisely because he had legendary observational skills as well as the ability to convert his observations into a coherent and credible image of the past. He saw nuances of the evidence that the rest of us often did not see. It almost seemed at times that he felt the presence of, rather than actually seeing, some elusive bit of evidence, except that he could always explain its existence to others. I think that those of us who had the privilege of working with him always assumed, with some good reason, that his remarkable powers of observation were the product of his many years of field experience in all parts of the Southwest. What is so interesting, therefore, about this issue of Journal of the Southwest, is that it provides us with a picture of Emil Haury as a young man. We see him courting his childhood sweetheart, coping with strange customs, struggling to learn Spanish, exploring in Navajoland, dreaming about the future, and commenting on the ways of the world. Throughout it all he demonstrates that he was already equipped with considerable observational ability. He must have honed his capacity for seeing clearly the world around him very early as he and his boyhood friends roamed the fields and woods of rural Kansas, gaining first-hand knowledge of the natural history of their part of mid-western America.