Open AccessExploration in American Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Wesley R. Hurt. edited by Mark G. Plew, University Press of America, Lanham, 1999
Author(s) -
David L. Browman
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.10109
Subject(s) - canyon , honor , archaeology , history , cousin , archaeology of the americas , geography , cartography , computer science , operating system
This volume contains a short 6 page history of the contributionsofWesley Robert Hurt, Jr., to Americanist archaeology,along with a 4 page 'selected'list of his publications. The review starts with his career in the Southwest, traces theshift in his research to the Plains, and especially South Dakota, and then turns to hislater change of interest to South America (especially Colombia, Brazil and Uruguay).Hurt was born September 20, 1 9 1 7 in New Mexico, and got into archaeology through hiscousin, Reginald Fisher, who was working for Dr. Edgar L. Heweu. Hurt started out takingHeweu's Chaco Canyon Field School, and began working on the Jemez Archaeological projectas a high school student in the 1930s. After graduating from the University of NewMexico in 1938, he worked from 1938 to 1940 as a WPAArchaeology Project supervisor onSouthwest projects, and in 1941 served as the National Park Service archaeologist atCanyon de Chelly National Monument