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Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883 – September 2, 1948) was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century.
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.
Sylvanus Morley was the most influential Mayan archaeologist of his time. His career focused on the study of the most advanced native peoples in the Western Hemisphere, the magnificent pre-Columbian civilization of southern Mexico and Central America.
The American archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an expert in Maya hieroglyphic writing and the public face of Maya studies from the 1920s to late 1940s. Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on June 7, 1883, Morley earned a BA (1907) and MA (1908) from Harvard and later an honorary doctorate from the Pennsylvania Military College.
Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883 – September 2, 1948) was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century.
THE diary of Sylvanus Grisworld Morley, in thirty-nine volumes, covers the active years be- tween 1905 and 1947 of a career devotedly and indivisibly dedicated to the ancient Maya of Mex- ico and Central America, to whose in many ways unique civilization his own studies were confined.
The Archaeological Field Diaries of Sylvanus Griswold Morley: Excavations at Quirigua, 1912 and 1919
