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Title Philadelphia and the development of Americanist archaeology / edited by Don D. Fowler and David R. Wilcox
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages) : illustrations
Contents Drab doves take flight : the dilemmas of earl Americanist archaelogy in Philadelphia / Curtis M. Hinsley -- Toward concensus on the scope of archaeology : Daniel Garrison Brinton and the view from Philadelphia / Regna Darnell -- Unsung visionary : Sara Yorke Stevenson and the development of archaeology in Philadelphia / Elin C. Danien and Elinor M. King -- In the heat of controversy : C.C. Abott, the American Paleolithic, and the University Museum / David J. Meltzer -- Restoring authenticity : Judging Frank Hamilton Cushing's veracity / David R. Wilcox -- Clarence Bloomfield Moore : a Philadelphia archaeologist in the southeastern United States / Lawrence E. Aten and Jerald T. Milanich -- Lucy L.W. Wilson, Ph. D. : an eastern educator and the southwestern Pueblos / Frances Joan Mathien -- The second largest city in the English-speaking world : John L. Cotter and the historical archaelogy of Philadelphia / Robert L. Schuyler -- Archaeology, Philadelphia, and understanding nine-teenth century American culture / Steven Conn -- Philarivarium / Alice Beck Keyhoe
Summary For two and a half centuries, Philadelphians have been actively involved in archaeological research. In particular, three vital and venerable cultural institutionsthe 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-230) and index
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Subject University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology -- History
SUBJECT University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology fast
University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology -- Histoire. ram
Subject Anthropology -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Congresses
Archaeology -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Congresses
Archaeologists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography -- Congresses
Archaeology -- United States -- History -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Congresses
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Anthropology
Antiquities
Archaeologists
Archaeology
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Intellectual life
Indiens -- Amérique du Nord -- Antiquités.
Archéologie -- Philadelphie (Pa.) -- Histoire.
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
United States -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Philadelphie (Pa.) -- Vie intellectuelle.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fowler, Don D., 1936-
Wilcox, David R., 1944-
Gordon R. Willey Symposium on the History of American Archaeology (3rd : 2000 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
LC no. 2003001149
ISBN 9780817384630
0817384634
0817313117
9780817313111