The first waves of settlers to enter the American heartland came across the remains of the people who had lived there before. Relic Hunters presents some of these stories-how local people responded to the ruins in their midst, collected relics, and explained them to each other.
The first waves of settlers to enter the American heartland came across the remains of the people who had lived there before. Relic Hunters presents some of these stories-how local people responded to the ruins in their midst, collected relics, and explained them to each other.
James E. Snead is Professor at California State University, Northridge. He completed his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1995: subsequent writing and research has been supported by numerous institutions and agencies, including the American Museum of Natural History, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Science Foundation.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: The Kentucky Mummy: Encountering the American Past * 2: Antiquarian Dreams: Collections and Competition in the Early Republic * 3: "Too Poetical a Theory": Antiquarian Ambition, East and West * 4: Antiquarian Entrepreneurs: Mounds and Meaning in the Jacksonian Era * 5: "These Places Know him no more": Surveys, Panoramas, and the Ancient American Landscape * 6: Idol Pursuits: Artifacts and Authority after the Civil War * 7: Mementos of the Prehistoric Races: Antiquarians and Archaeologists in the Centennial Decade * 8: "Lost by Being Found": The Public and the Material Past in the 19th Century United States
* 1: The Kentucky Mummy: Encountering the American Past * 2: Antiquarian Dreams: Collections and Competition in the Early Republic * 3: "Too Poetical a Theory": Antiquarian Ambition, East and West * 4: Antiquarian Entrepreneurs: Mounds and Meaning in the Jacksonian Era * 5: "These Places Know him no more": Surveys, Panoramas, and the Ancient American Landscape * 6: Idol Pursuits: Artifacts and Authority after the Civil War * 7: Mementos of the Prehistoric Races: Antiquarians and Archaeologists in the Centennial Decade * 8: "Lost by Being Found": The Public and the Material Past in the 19th Century United States
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