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Cummings was a believer in 'mythical giants' which were commonly reported from archaeological sites in the early 1900s in North
America. Despite numerous reports of giant skeletons being found, no documented evidence of their existence has been produced. In 1930, Cummings, then Dean of the University
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Arizona Archaeological Department, led an expedition "160 miles south of the border" where Cummings expected to find giant skeletons after having apparently previously found one male and two female skeletons each over 8 feet tall with heads over 1 foot long in a "burial ground to the 'cyclops'".
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in 1938, with the title of
Director Emeritus. His last field work was at Kinishba, a great ruin on the Apache reservation, excavation of which he pursued annually from 1931 through 1939 with student assistants majoring in anthropology. He restored part of the ruin and built a local museum with the
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Cummings was the first to discover
Pleistocene man in southern Arizona and his discoveries led to the eventual recognition of the Cochise culture that has been dated to before 6,000 B.C. He authored numerous articles, pamphlets and books about Southwestern cultures based on the sites and ruins he
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explored. One of his dreams was realized when in 1936 the doors of a new
Arizona State Museum building were opened to the public. He retired from the department of archaeology in 1937 and from the museum in 1938, but remained Director Emeritus until his death in Tucson in 1954 at the age of 93.
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help of Apache labor, and he cared for it until 1946 when he retired asecond time in order to devote full time to his writings. Even at 70 few student helpers could wield a shovel as long and as efficiently as he, and none could equal him on a cross-country hike.
196:. On August 14, 1909, he led his party to the discovery of Rainbow Natural Bridge. From the University of Arizona continued his archeological researches each summer until he retired from the classroom and the
184:. Exploration he and his students conducted in SE Utah and NE Arizona, then almost unknown to Americans, resulted in the discoveries of the Natural Bridges that President Roosevelt declared as
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153:(September 20, 1860 – May 21, 1954) was an American archaeologist and university president. He is known as the dean of Southwestern archaeology. Cummings was the founding head of
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Cummings was co-head of the US party attempting to be the first
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262:Standing
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256:Overall
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