Ray Matheny (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ray T. Matheny is a professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University (BYU). Matheny was in the United States Air Force during World War II and spent some of this time as a prisoner of war of the Germans. After the war he was a mechanic for Western Air Lines and then joined the military again to serve in the Korean War. By the time he began his studies at BYU he was a 32-year-old freshman with a wife and four children. He earned his bachelor's degree at BYU in 1960 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oregon in 1968. He has been involved in many archaeological expeditions to Mayan cities. He has been closely connected with the New World Archaeology Foundation.