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New perspectives on the origins of Americanist archaeology

Title
New perspectives on the origins of Americanist archaeology / edited by David L. Browman and Stephen Williams.
Publication
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Browman, David L.
  • Williams, Stephen, 1926-
  • Gordon R. Willey Biennial Symposium on the History of Archaeology (2nd : 1998 : Seattle, Wash.)
Description
x, 378 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "This volume grew out of the Second Gordon R. Willey Biennial Symposium on the History of Archaeology, held at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in Seattle, Washington, in 1998, where eight of the twelve papers in this volume were initially presented"--Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-366) and index.
Contents
  • The strait of Anian: a pathway to the new world / Stephen Williams -- "From whence came those aboriginal inhabitants of America?" Ad. l500-l800 / Stephen Williams -- Roots of the Walam Olum: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque and the intellectual heritage of the early nineteenth century / David M. Oestreicher -- Toward a science of man: European influences on the archaeology of Ephraim George Squier / Terry A. Barnhart -- Charles Rau: developments in the career of a nineteenth-century German-American archaeologist / John E. Kelly -- Europe's prehistoric dawn reproduced: Daniel Wilson's magisterial archaeology / Alice B. Kehoe -- Maine shell midden archaeology (1860-1910) and the influence of Adolphe von Morlot / Bruce J. Bourque -- Frances Eliza Babbitt and the growth of professionalism of women in archaeology / Hilary Lynn Chester -- Henry Chapman Mercer: Archaeologist and cultural historian / David L. Browman.
  • Frederic Ward Putnam: contributions to the development of archaeological institutions and encouragement of women practitioners / David L. Browman -- Origins of stratigraphic excavation in North America: the Peabody Museum method and the Chicago Method / David L. Browman -- George Grant MacCurdy: an American pioneer of palaeoanthropology / Harvey M. Bricker.
ISBN
  • 0817311289
  • 9780817311285
LCCN
2001003856
OCLC
  • ocm47297564
  • 47297564
  • SCSB-1251283
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library