Carl Maia (New Earth-Forty Two)

Youth
Carl Maia was born the son, of teacher and his wife in Madrid Spain.

In his youth, Carl was an excellent student, excelling in both biology and history. This intrigue would eventually lead him to the field of Archaeology, a field he would choose as his future.

Carl would attend the University of Cambridge in 1905 with a scholarship after writing a thesis about Homo erectus and the possibility of other "miing links" existing in different parts of the world.

He would graduate in 1913 with both a degree in Archaeology and Biology.

Early Years
Doctor Maia's early years as an archaeologist trying, due to the onset of the First World War. Maia being a citizen of Spain was not forced to fight in the war, due to his country's neutrality during the conflicted, but till feared the possibility of being pulled into it. The war made it impossible to find any European investors to finances any expedition in search of possible archaeological sites.

In 1916, Doctor Maia would turn his sights to the United States for financial backing, but what he did find was a lot less then he hoped for and only managed to fund small expeditions that found little to nothing.

After the First World War ended, Doctor Maia was still unable to find a constant source of support for his research, only able to piggy back on other archaeologists expeditions as a colleague.

During this period, Maia would marry a woman he met in England, during a guest lecture at Cambridge. This marriage would last for about two years, before they divorced.

South American Hopes
In 1936, Doctor Maia fled his home country of Spain, when the Spanish Civil War began, due to fearing for his life and fled to United States. Maia would settle in California after talking with some old friends and being offered a job as a teacher of Marine Biology.

He would teach for several years and use some of his own money along with investor money to travel to South America to do some archaeological research, after hearing about the multiple unique tribes that fill the jungles of the continent. During this period he would take on student, David Reed who would later become a respected ichthyologist.