Independent researchers from Columbia University, archaeologists Dr. Richard B. Woodbury and his wife, Nathalie F.S. Woodbury, arrived at MNA in 1957. They continued as MNA Research Associates each summer through the 1960s and Richard served as a member of the MNA Board of Trustees.
His research interests focused on southwest anthropology. He authored Sixty Years of Southwestern Archeology: The History of
the Pecos Conference in 1993. He was an Emeritus professor of anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Mrs. Woodbury was adjunct faculty at the same institution. A Richard B. Woodbury scholarship award for UMass anthropological graduate students has been established.
Woodbury, Richard B. “A century of Zuni research.” Exploration, Annual Bulletin of the School of American Research, 1983.
—. Sixty years of Southwestern archaeology: a history of the Pecos Conference. University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
—. Prehistoric stone implements of northeastern Arizona. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 34, 1954.
—. “Symposium in prehistoric Southwestern water control systems: the Zuni area.” Water Control Symposium, Pecos Conference, Santa Fe, 1970.
Woodbury, Richard B. and Nathalie S. “Zuni Prehistory and El Morro National Monument.” Southwestern Lore, vol. 21, no. 4, 1956.