American antiquities [electronic resource] :revisiting the origins of American archaeology / Terry A. Barnhart.
By: Barnhart, Terry A.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookSeries: Critical studies in the history of anthropology.Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803284319; 0803284314.Subject(s): Archaeologists -- United States -- Historiography | Archaeology -- United States -- History | United States -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 973.1 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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