Emil Haury; Archeologist Was Expert on American Southwest

Emil Haury, 88, an archeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona and an expert on the American Southwest. He taught in Tucson from 1937 to 1980 while serving as a director of the Arizona State Museum. His excavations in the late 1930s and early 1940s helped authenticate the existence of Southwest Indian cultures thousands of years before the birth of Christ. He also was credited with identifying the prehistoric Mogollon Indian culture that existed before AD 1000 in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. He also led expeditions that added to knowledge of the Hohokam culture, which flourished in central and southern Arizona from about AD 400 to 1400. In Tucson on Dec. 5 of a heart ailment.