Emil Walter "Doc" Haury was an American archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of the American Southwest.
14 Facts About Emil Haury
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Emil Haury is most famous for his work at Snaketown, a Hohokam site in Arizona.
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In 1930 Emil Haury became the assistant director at Gila Pueblo.
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Between his extensive work with Gila Pueblo, Emil Haury managed to earn his PhD from Harvard.
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Emil Haury's dissertation dealt with the excavations by Frank Hamilton Cushing at Los Muertos, a Hohokam site in Arizona.
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Emil Haury conducted several excavations at Paleoindian sites and subsequently wrote several papers on the subject.
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In 1952 Haury began investigating an arroyo where a rancher, Edward F Lehner, had observed bones sticking out from a deep layer.
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Emil Haury was the first to claim that the Hohokam were decedents of the Paleoindian Cochise culture.
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Emil Haury was a critical figure in the chronology of the Hohokam because of his work in establishing a timeline for the Pioneer period Hohokam.
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Emil Haury was a proponent of the idea that the Hohokam had contact with Mesoamerica.
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Emil Haury decided then to re-visit a site where Gladwin had first conducted research in the 1930s.
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Much of Emil Haury's work was conducted in the most famous Mogollon area, the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico.
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In 1937 Emil Haury went back to the University of Arizona to head the Department of Archaeology.
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Emil Haury was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.