Quote of the day
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Gordon Willey
Born: March 7, 1913
Died: April 28, 2002 (aged 89)
Bio: Gordon Randolph Willey was an American archaeologist who was described by colleagues as the "dean" of New World archaeology.
Known for:
- Method and theory in American archaeology
- A history of American archaeology (1974)
- Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast (1949)
- New world archaeology and culture history (1990)