American Antiquities Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology |
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| Author:
| Barnhart, Terry A. |
| Series title: | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-6842-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $107.80 |
Book Description:
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In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about "Mound Builders" and "American Indians". Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact.
In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about "Mound Builders" and "American Indians". Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact.