Count Maurice de Périgny
Count Maurice de Périgny (1877-?)
At the end of Nineteenth Century many explorers found the lure of the ruins of America impossible to resist. One of these explorers was a actual French Count.
Francisco Estrada-Belli
Francisco Estrada-Belli (Ph.D. Boston University 1998) is a Guatemalan archaeologist who specializes on the beginnings of Maya civilization as well as Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing and other computer applications for archaeology.
Alfred M. Tozzer
Alfred Marston Tozzer was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on July 4, 1877. He received degrees in anthropology from Harvard College: an A.B. in 1900, an A.M. in 1901 and a Ph.D. in 1904.
Bruce W. Merwin
Bruce W. Merwin, Raymond's younger brother, was born on February 27, 1889 in Kansas. Bruce graduated from the University of Kansas with his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Education in 1911. He was employed by the Peabody Museum Harvard during the summer of 19?? working at the Indian Village site near Madisonville, Ohio. Bruce served as assistant to Raymond during the expedition to Holmul in 1910 and 1911. He worked for the Peabody in Henry County, Tennessee during 1914. He became the Assistant Curator of American Archaeology in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in 1915.
Raymond E. Merwin
Raymond Edwin Merwin was born in Humbolt, Kansas November 21, 1881. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Kansas in 1903, his A. M. Degree the following year, and during the school year 1904-1905 he had the teachers fellowship in sociology and anthropology. For one year he was principal of the High School in Galena, Kansas.
