The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey
The Museum of Casa Grande 110 W. Florence Blvd, Casa Grande, AZ, United StatesCharles Lindbergh is best known for his famous 1927 flight across the Atlantic Ocean. But few realize that Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, played a brief but important role in archaeology. In 1929 they teamed up with noted archaeologist Alfred Kidder to conduct an unprecedented aerial photographic survey of Southwest prehistoric sites and geologic features […]