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Philadelphia And The Development Of Americanist Archaeology by DON D.FOWLER DAVID R.WILCOX著, Don D Fowler, David R Wilcox, Society for American Archaeology, Gordon R. Willey Symposium on the History of American Archaeology, edited by Don D. Fowler and David R. Wilcox, Norman C. Delaney, D. D Fowler is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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For two and a half centuries, Philadelphians have been actively involved in archaeological research. In particular, three vital and venerable cultural institutions—the American Philosophical Society (founded 1743), the Academy of Natural Sciences (founded 1812), and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (founded 1893)—have nurtured the \"systematic study of antiquities.\" The ten essays in this volume focus on Philadelphians who were concerned with Americanist archaeology, or the \"archaeology of the New World.\" As Europeans, and later, Euroamericans, spread across North, Central, and South America in the 16th through the 19th centuries, they encountered a bewildering variety of native peoples, customs, and languages, as well as tens of thousands of ancient ruins attesting to a long endemic culture history of obvious complexity. The essays examine most of the key players in the development of the methods to study these phenomena. Enlightenment scholars such as Benjamin Smith Barton, Peter S. Duponceau, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Garrison Brinton, John Wesley Powell, and Benjamin Rush all contributed to the surge of scientific study of America's prehistoric cultur
- Author
- DON D.FOWLER DAVID R.WILCOX著, Don D Fowler, David R Wilcox, Society for American Archaeology, Gordon R. Willey Symposium on the History of American Archaeology, edited by Don D. Fowler and David R. Wilcox, Norman C. Delaney, D. D Fowler
- Publisher
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817313128
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, History
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