[FMT]Contents[\]
List of Illustrations 000
Acknowledgments 000
1 "One of the Leading Figures in Southwestern Archaeology": The Life of
Byron Cummings 000
2 "If We Live, at All, Let Us Be Alive": Early Life in New York and New
Jersey 000
3 "The Climate Is Delightful, the Scenery Unsurpassed": Cummings at the
University of Utah 000
4 "Archaeology of Our Own Region": The Utah Society of the Archaeological
Institute of America, 1906--1909 000
5 "A Picture of the Past and Present Mingled": Adventures in Europe 000
6 "The Path Man Has Traveled in His Progress": Return to the Red Rock
Country, 1911--1914 000
7 "Not in Harmony with the Forces": A Controversy at the University of
Utah 000
8 "The Confidence and Esteem of His Pupils": Teaching Archaeology, 1912--
1925 000
9 "The Organizing and Building Up of Our University Museum": Development
of the Arizona State Museum, 1915--1926 000
10 "The Great Onward Movement of the Human Race": Expeditions to Northern
Arizona, 1915--1926 000
11 "A Mexican Pompeii": Uncovering the Cuicuilco Pyramid, 1922--1925 000
12 "A Good Detective Story": The Silverbell Road Artifact Controversy,
1924--1930 000
13 "Life to Them Had Ceased to Be a Struggle for Existence": Cummings and
the Archaeology of the Sonoran Desert, 1925--1938 000
14 "Why Shouldn't Man Have Been Created on American Soil?" Cummings' 1926
Excavations into the Arizona Ice Age 000
15 "To Guide the Ship through the Night": President of the University of
Arizona, 1927--1928 000
16 "There Is a Plan and System and Progress in Every Phase": The Arizona
State Museum, 1927--1937 000
17 "Shall Arizona Save and Preserve Her Heritage?" The Arizona Antiquities
Act of 1927 000
18 "A Man of Vision": Expanding the Archaeology Department 000
19 "Shortest Possible Statement for a Research Goal": Excavations in
Northern Arizona, 1927--1930 000
20 "Weird, Thrilling, Spectacular": Archaeology and Tourism in the Prescott
and Verde River Regions, 1931--1934 000
21 "A Profitable Chapter in the Life History of Man": Cummings' Vision of
an Outdoor Museum at Kinishba, 1931--1937 000
22 "A Very Unpopular Move": Cummings' Involuntary Retirement and the
Hohokam Museums Association 000
23 "There Is Much Work Yet to Be Done": Final Years at Kinishba, 1938--1947
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24 "Something Besides a Few Scraps of Paper That May Blow Away": Cummings
the Writer and His Twilight Years 000
Epilogue 000
Notes 000
References 000
Index 000
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[FMT]Illustrations[\]
[FM1]Figures[\]
1.1 Byron Cummings, circa 1930 000
1.2 Cummings at Rainbow Bridge in 1935 000
1.3 Archaeological sites in Arizona, 1908--1938 000
3.1 Isabelle and Byron Cummings, 1917 000
4.1 Archaeological sites in southeastern Utah, 1910 000
4.2 Rainbow Bridge crew, 1909 000
4.3 Betatakin, 1909 000
6.1 Major sites in the Kayenta region, 1953 000
8.1 Map of Cummings' 1919 field school expedition to Navajo Country 000
9.1 Museum catalog card 000
10.1 Excavation of Juniper Cove pithouse, 1923 000
11.1 Excavation of the side of Cuicuilco 000
11.2 Plan map of Cuicuilco excavations, 1925 000
11.3 Room feature on side of Cuicuilco Pyramid 000
12.1 Inscribed lead artifacts from the Silverbell Road site 000
12.2 Interior of one of the Silverbell Road lead crosses 000
12.3 Cummings pointing to artifact in situ at the Silverbell Road site 000
13.1 Plan map of the Tanque Verde excavations 000
13.2 Map of Gila River canals, 1927 000
14.1 Cummings and student digging mammoth skull at Double Adobe site, 1926
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16.1 Interior of the Arizona State Museum, 1934 000
16.2 Interior of the new Arizona State Museum building, 1936 000
18.1 Four of Cummings' archaeology students, 1926 000
19.1 Plan map for Turkey Hill Ruin, circa 1929--1930 000
19.2 Crew photograph for the 1929 Turkey Hill excavations 000
20.1 Design on pottery from King's Ruin 000
20.2 Inside Tuzigoot ceramic laboratory, circa 1934 000
20.3 Plan view of Tuzigoot Ruin 000
21.1 Cummings at Kinishba, late 1930s 000
21.2 Plan map for Kinishba 000
23.1 Excavated but unrestored portion of Kinishba 000
23.2 Kinishba reconstructed, looking north 000
23.3 Roosevelt style black-on-white jar from Kinishba 000
23.4 Arizona Republic cartoon of Cummings at Kinishba 000
24.1 Ann Chatham and Byron Cummings, circa 1940s 000
[FM1]Tables[\]
4.1 Some of the Archaeological Sites Explored by Byron Cummings, 1908--1909
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6.1 Some of the Archaeological Sites Excavated or Surveyed by Byron Cummings,
1911--1914 000
8.1 Classes in American Archaeology Taught by Byron Cummings at the University
of Utah, 1912--1915 000
8.2 Classes Taught by Byron Cummings, 1915--1921 000
10.1 Archaeological Sites Excavated by Byron Cummings in Northeastern Arizona,
1915--1917 000
10.2 Byron Cummings' Archaeological Expedition Expenses for the Summer
Expedition of 1915 000
12.1 Silverbell Road Artifacts Discovered by Charles Manier and Thomas Bent,
1924--1925 000
16.1 Budgets for Arizona State Museum and Department of Archaeology,
University of Arizona, 1926--1937 000
18.1 Master's Theses Written under Byron Cummings at the University of
Arizona, 1928--1937 000
18.2 Professors and Instructors in the Department of Archaeology, 1927--1937
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