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Barnhart, Terry A. Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xvi + 426 pages. Cloth, $59.95.
For American archaeologists, Ephraim George Squier--along with his collaborator Edwin Hamilton Davis--is lauded as one of the honorable ancestors of the discipline, a pioneer of scientific investigation of the past. Their Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, published in 1848, is commonly seen as an empirical antidote to romantic and frequently racist speculations regarding the so-called Moundbuilders, as well as a still-useful source of information for sites since destroyed by agriculture or development. Consequently, it was startling to discover this book in the office of a colleague whose specialty is nineteenth-century American diplomatic history, and amazing to learn that fieldwork on North American mounds occupied less than four years of Squier's wide-ranging and eventful life.
This intellectual biography is a fascinating corrective to merely archaeological claims for Squier's significance, using his... |
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