Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds write by Edward Palmer. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 1880s a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century’s greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors of the historic North American Indians, shattering the then-popular theory that a lost non-Indian race had built them.
Edward Palmer Field Notes
Edward Palmer Field Notes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edward Palmer Field Notes write by Edward Palmer. This book was released on 1881. Edward Palmer Field Notes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Field notes made by Palmer in Arkansas while locating Indian mounds, excavating, etc.
Edward Palmer: the Man and His Family
Edward Palmer: the Man and His Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edward Palmer: the Man and His Family write by Gayle Yiotis. This book was released on 2017-08-09. Edward Palmer: the Man and His Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much has been written about Edward Palmer's explorations and botanical achievements, the most comprehensive by Rogers McVaugh in his book, Edward Palmer, Plant Explorer of the American West (1956), and Marvin D. Jeter, editor of Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds (1990; 2010). But despite their extensive and far reaching research into Palmer's explorations, Palmer and his family are still somewhat of a mystery. Palmer piqued my interest as I read through some of his journals and correspondence in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. I wanted to know more about this seemingly frail, lonely man, not Palmer the botanist, or Palmer the doctor, or Palmer the collector, but what made Palmer the man.
Tracing Archaeology's Past
Tracing Archaeology's Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracing Archaeology's Past write by Andrew L. Christenson. This book was released on 1989. Tracing Archaeology's Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 17 critical essays, the first book to address the historiography of archaeology evaluates how and why the history of archaeology is written. The emphasis in the first section is on how archaeologists use historical knowledge of their discipline. For example, it can help them to understand the origin of current archaeological ideas, to learn from past errors, and to apply past research to current questions. It can even be integrated into the new liberal arts curricula in an attempt to instruct students in critical thinking. The second section considers the sociopolitical context within which past archaeologists lived and worked and the contexts within which historians of archaeology write. The topics treated include the rise of capitalism and colonialism and the rise of "modern archaeology," the political contexts and changing form of the history of Mesoamerican archaeology, the decline to obscurity of once prominent archaeologists, and the institutional and ideological "fossilization" of American classical archaeology. The final section focuses on researching and presenting the history of archaeology. The authors discuss past archaeologists in light of their institutional affiliations, the use of historic methods to interpret past archaeological notes and collections, and the means of presenting the history of archaeology on videotape. The final paper offers a plan for documenting the many records (diaries, fieldnotes, correspondence, unpublished reports) in public and private hands that contain the history of archaeology.
Gifts of the Great River
Gifts of the Great River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gifts of the Great River write by John H. House. This book was released on 2003. Gifts of the Great River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the St. Francis River region of Arkansas. By the time Curtiss completed his 56 days of fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1,000 pottery vessels to the Peabody Museum. House brings us a lively account of the work of the 19th-century fieldworker, the Native culture he explored, and the rich legacies left by both.
