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Appendix 6 759 T H E C A R N E G I E M A Y A The biographical summaries in this appendix include only those individuals who have authored a contribution in one of the Year Books. Eleanor B. Adams(historian).AcollaboratorwithFrance V. Scholes, Adams served as editor of the New Mexico Historical Review in Santa Fe from 1964 to 1975. She wrote extensively on the early colonial and ecclesiastical history of the Maya as well as on the American Southwest and Southern California. Robert McC. Adams (1926– , archaeologist). Educated at the University of Chicago (Ph.B., 1947; M.A., 1952; Ph.D., 1956), Adams served on the faculty of the University of Chicago (1955–1984) and was director of the Oriental Institute (1962–1968). From 1984 to 1994 he was secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He has done regionally oriented archaeological studies in Iraq, emphasizing the analysis of settlement patterns , and written extensively on the role played by irrigation, warfare, and ecological diversity in the evolution of the earliest states. MonroeAmsden(archaeologist).AnativeofFarmington, New Mexico, as a boy and young man he worked for Neil Judd at Chaco Canyon, where his tasks included pottery sorting and classification with Frank Roberts. In 1925 he went with Alfred Kidder and Earl Morris to Canyon de Chelly as part of an archaeological party from the Peabody Museum (Woodbury 1993:66). Manuel J. Andrade (1885–1941; linguist). Born in Spain, Andrade was educated at the Instituto Regional of Coruña, and came as a young man to the United States, where he held various positions as a teacher of Romance languages. Becoming interested in the scientific aspects of linguistics, he studied under Franz Boas and received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1929. The following year he accepted a joint appointmentasassociateprofessorattheUniversityof Chicago and staff investigator of the Carnegie Institution. Half BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 760 APPENDIX 6 of Andrade’s time was devoted to teaching advanced students in linguistics and half to fieldwork and research on the languages of the Maya stock. He made many trips to Mexico and Guatemala, amassing enormousamountsofmaterialconcerningYucatecanMaya , Huastec, Quiché, Tzutujil, Cakchiquel, Pokoman, Mam, and other tongues. In the course of this work he developedremarkablyeffectivemeansforthemechanical recording of speech. E. Wyllys Andrews IV (1916–1971; archaeologist). Educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1938; Ph.D., 1942), Andrews conducted archaeological investigations of the northern Maya lowlands, including the excavation and restoration of Dzibilchaltún. A collection of over 900 black-and-white photographs by Andrews from Yucatán are at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. (Ruz Lhuillier 1973; Stirling 1973). Robert H. Barlow (1918–1951; ethnohistorian). Barlow was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, and educated at the Kansas City Art Institute and San Francisco Junior College. He received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1941 and taught at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad de las Américas (Mexico City College). His research interest emphasized Mexican anthropology , especially the ethnohistory and ancient history of Mexico. Barlow founded the journal Tlalocan (Bernal 1951a, 1951b; Dibble 1951; Harcourt 1951; McQuown 1951; Monjaras-Ruiz and Limon 1996; Smisor 1952). Heinrich Berlin (1915–1988; archaeologist). At the same time that Tatiana Proskouriakoff was working on a dynastic history of Piedras Negras, Berlin, a Germanborn investigator living in México City, identified a seriesofsignsthathetermed EmblemGlyphs,thenames for actual city-states (Riese 1988, 1989). Frans Blom (1893–1963; archaeologist). Born in Copenhagen , Blom excavated at Pueblo Bonito in the American Southwest and conducted fieldwork in southern Mexico (1923, 1925, 1930), Guatemala (1924, 1928, 1937), and Honduras (1935). His manuscripts may be found at the Latin American Library, Tulane University , and the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (Brunhouse 1976; Guthe 1963b; Luján Muñoz 1964; Termer 1964b, 1964c, 1965; Leifer, Nielsen, and Reunert 2002). John S. Bolles (1905–1983; architect). Bolles obtained his B.A. degree in engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1926 and graduated from Harvard with an M.A. degree in architecture in 1932. He worked as a structural engineer in Oklahoma and as an archeologist for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago on the excavations at Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, and also for the Carnegie Institution of WashingtononacomprehensivestudyofChichénItzá. Many years later he assembled that work into a book titled Las Monjas: Major Pre-Mexican Architectural Complex at Chichén Itzá, published by the University...

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