i have no clue who "ben" is...i have no knowledge of the artifacts...looked at pictures an speed read some things...
from the journal article..."
Haury (1988, 2004: 130) recalled that when he arrived as a student in 1925 the Arizona State Museum was located in several rooms on the third floor of the Agriculture (now Forbes) Building. It was mostly a one-man operation. Byron Cummings was the museum director as well as head of the Archaeology Department, and his sister recorded visitors and showed them through the museum. Cummings was in Mexico during the summer of 1924, excavating at the site of Cuicuilco, so was not present when the first set of artifacts was examined by Karl Ruppert and A. E. Douglass, who were covering some of Cummings' responsibilities while he was in Mexico. "
these were the early days of anthropology, and it's attendent sub-field, archaeology...
prior to marx, all of this activity was considered history, and the mad professor searhing for lost civilizations...