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Field Man - Life as a Desert Archaeologist (Paperback)
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"Field Man "is the captivating memoir of renowned southwestern
archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden, a man who held no professional
degree or faculty position but who camped and argued with a who's
who of the discipline, including Emil Haury, Malcolm Rogers, Paul
Ezell, and Norman Tindale. This is the personal story of a
blue-collar scholar who bucked the conventional thinking on the
antiquity of man in the New World, who brought a formidable
pragmatism and "hand sense" to the identification of stone tools,
and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of
the Sierra Pinacate in northwestern Mexico.
But "Field Man "is also an evocative recollection of a bygone time
and place, a time when archaeological trips to the Southwest were
"expeditions," when a man might run a Civilian Conservation Corps
crew by day and study the artifacts of ancient peoples by night,
when one could honeymoon by a still-full Gila River, and when a
Model T pickup needed extra transmissions to tackle the back roads
of Arizona.
To say that Julian Hayden led an eventful life would be an
understatement. He accompanied his father, a Harvard-trained
archaeologist, on influential excavations, became a crew chief in
his own right, taught himself silversmithing, married a "city
girl," helped build the Yuma Air Field, worked as a civilian safety
officer, and was a friend and mentor to countless students. He also
crossed paths with leading figures in other fields. Barry Goldwater
and even Frank Lloyd Wright turn up in this wide-ranging narrative
of a "desert rat" who was at once a throwback and--as he only
half-jokingly suggests--ahead of his time.
"Field Man "is the product of years of interviews with Hayden
conducted by his colleagues and friends Bill Broyles and Diane
Boyer. It is introduced by noted southwestern anthropologist J.
Jefferson Reid, and contains an epilogue by Steve Hayden, one of
Julian's sons.
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