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Next Door to Olympus: Reminiscences of a Harvard Student

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Michael D. Coe
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Extract

10 Frisbie Place, the Cambridge location of Carnegie's Division of Historical Research, did not look much like Mt. Olympus, but to me, it was exactly that. An old, three-story frame building with drably painted clapboards, it must once have been some Harvard professor's house back in the Victorian era. Anyone looking for it now would never find it: it was demolished many years back to make way for the enormous biochemistry laboratories of a more modern Harvard. The ghosts of its Maya archaeologists–almost all gone now–must wander like disconsolate wraiths among the glassware and computer screens.

Type
Special Section: Remembering Carnegie Archaeology
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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