Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation

In 1928, Mr. Harold Gladwin and Mrs. Winifred Jones MacCurdy, two wealthy individuals interested in archaeology, bought land near Globe from the Healys. The prehistoric Gila Pueblo ruin was located on this acreage. On this site, they established the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation. Mr. Gladwin was the Director of Gila Pueblo, which employed Dr. Emil Haury as Assistant Director in 1930. Gladwin and Mrs. MacCurdy were later married.

The Gila Pueblo staff surveyed a wide area in several states and northern Mexico and excavated a number of sites that helped define Hohokam, Mogollon and Salado cultures. The Foundation also published their archaeological studies as the Medallion Papers and held the Gila Pueblo Conference of 1931 when Gladwin explained his Southwest culture-unit (phases) classification, a framework that is still used today.

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