Marshall H. Saville

Not many men have made larger contribution to knowledge of early American civilization than Marshall Howard Saville. Dr. Saville was tireless in his investigations; he conducted nearly twenty-five trips of exploration into the buried remains of primitive Central and South America. His service in enlarging popular ideas of the Western Hemisphere’s long past was perhaps best illustrated by his discovery that in the Inca country dentistry of high order, with gold fillings for the teeth, was practiced a thousand years ago, and that in the hilltops of Ecuador, as proved by excavations and unearthing of human bones, there had lived in that far-distant period the race of giants that had ever since been described in what had been considered the popular mythology of a later South American civilization.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook