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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: John Lloyd Stephens, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Sylvanus Morley, Richard MacNeish, Matthew Stirling, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Alfred V. Kidder, Pierre Colas, Robert E. Lee Chadwick, David H. Kelley, Robert N. Zeitlin, Teoberto Maler, J. Eric S. Thompson, Alfred Tozzer, Manuel Gamio, E. G. Squier, Frederic Ward Putnam, Antonio de Leon y Gama, Eduardo Pareyon Moreno, Richard Diehl, Alfred Maudslay, Michael D. Coe, Karl Taube, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Doris Zemurray Stone, Zelia Nuttall, Gordon Willey, John Savage Bolles, Robert von Heine-Geldern, Ronald Spores, Alfonso Caso y Andrade, Edward Herbert Thompson, Stephen D. Houston, George Clapp Vaillant, George Cowgill, Desire Charnay, Charles S. Spencer, Frans Blom, Norman Hammond, Vernon L. Scarborough, A. Ledyard Smith, Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Helen Perlstein Pollard, Richard D. Hansen, Nicholas J. Saunders, Thomas Gann, Robert Wauchope, Felipe Solis Olguin, Richard Blanton, Pedro Armillas, Robert Sharer, William Duncan Strong, Arthur G. Miller, Joyce Marcus, David Grove, Philip Phillips, Ian Graham, Kent V. Flannery, William Saturno, Juan Galindo, John E. Clark, Marshall Howard Saville, Michael E. Smith, William R. Coe, Ignacio Bernal, John Alden Mason, Suzanna Miles, Susan D. Gillespie, Heather McKillop, Monica Pellecer Alecio. Excerpt: Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883 - September 2, 1948) was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar who made significant contributions toward the study of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early twentieth century. Morley is particularly noted for the extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza that he directed on behalf of the Carnegie Institution. He also published several large compilations and treatises on Maya hieroglyphic writing, and wrote popular accounts on the Maya for a gene...
