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Cassites (both: k s´ ts) (KEY) , ancient people, probably of Indo-European origin. They were first mentioned in historical texts as occupying the W I...
1883–1948, American archaeologist, b. Chester, Pa., grad. Harvard, 1908. A specialist in Middle American archaeology and Mayan heiroglyphs, Morley d...
(j lb r´t fr ´r ) (KEY) , 1900–1987, Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist, grad. Baylor Univ., 1920, M.A. Columbia, 1922. He taught, traveled...
(k shm ´r ) (KEY) , language belonging to the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian l...
1901–2002, British social anthropologist, b. Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at Auckland Univ. and studied with Bronislaw Malinowski at the L...
1821–88, American archaeologist and journalist, b. Bethlehem, Albany co., N.Y. He is noted for his study of the prehistoric Mound Builders of the Mi...