The Legacy of Earl Morris at Aztec, New Mexico
From his beginnings as a pot-hunter to becoming one of the most influential archaeologists in the American Southwest, Earl Morris left behind a legacy that endures to this day.
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From his beginnings as a pot-hunter to becoming one of the most influential archaeologists in the American Southwest, Earl Morris left behind a legacy that endures to this day.
An elaborate brick and mortar city was constructed in the desert by the Ancestral Pueblo people of northern New Mexico, only to be abandoned within the same century. What lessons did they leave behind for us to find?