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Along the way, he wrote articles about various subjects to help finance his itinerary, which eventually took him to Denver.

There, he met a local botanist who told him about the ancient civilization in southwest Colorado. Tragic developments led serendipitously to his meticulous exploration and exquisite documentation of the Mesa Verde culture. However, the full record of Nordenskiöld’s life is presented here by the Reynolds for the first time The Reynolds have matched private sources with far-reaching archival work in Sweden, Finland and the United States.

Previously known primarily in his home country, Sweden, and in the American Southwest, Nordenskiold's life and work has deserved broader attention.The Reynolds have placed the achievements of this young scientist in the context of his family and his cultural background. “This wasn’t last Friday. A St. Louis native and graduate of the University of Missouri’s...

Tragic developments led serendipitously to his meticulous exploration and exquisite documentation of the Mesa Verde culture. He saw ruins of cliff dwellings and looting. Case in point: her center’s work since 1996 — and very actively over the last two years — with 26 different tribes on repatriating some of the unidentified remains in the school’s collection.

“It’s long overdue and probably this will set a precedent for other European museums to assess their collections,” Tisdale says.

It is noteworthy in view of his contributions in different fields: mineralogy, crystallography, arctic exploration, anthropology and scientific photography. This is only to mend the wounds they created here and do so with the best processes we can in putting remains back where they belong.”

Nordenskiöld didn’t plan to intersect with the archeology of the Mesa Verde area.

The son of a scientist and scientifically trained himself, he embarked on a world tour for a change of climate to treat his tuberculosis — as many people of means did at that time.

“When he toured some ruins, he saw how much looters and black-market traders had taken out.”

That inspired a sense of urgency to obtain his own artifacts. Still, he managed to load hundreds of items onto a train and ship them east. “In the 1900s, we uncovered the history of how much looting and vandalizing occurred. His Mesa Verde travel journal was compiled and translated by my father, Dr.

Olof Arrhenius, and used by Florence and Robert Lister in their informal publication Stones Speak and Waters Sing. -- Gustaf Arrhenius Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, January 18, 2006