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American antiquities : revisiting the origins of American archaeology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnhart, Terry A., 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Archaeology > United States > History.
Archaeologists > United States > Historiography.
United States > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology
  • American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation
  • Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement
  • Antiquaries, ideas, and institutions: more testimony from the mounds
  • A dialectical discourse: constructing the mound builder paradigm
  • American archaeology: an infant science emerges
  • Origin, era, and region: an expanding field of archaeological enquiry
  • Archaeology as anthropology: the coming of the curators and professors.