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Excerpt from Report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 3: In Connection With Harvard University, 1880-86 Monday, March 7, 1881. The Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees was held this day, at 2 p.m., in the Museum, Cambridge, at: Messrs. Winthrop, Adams, Salisbury, Lyman, Scudder; Wheatland, and the Curator. The Report of the Treasurer was read and accepted and ordered to be printed under the direction of the Treasurer and Curator, as a part of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board. Mr. Salisbury resigned the office of Treasurer, the duties of which he had performed since the organization of the Board. Voted, that the Trustees accept his resignation with deep regret, and desire to place upon record their sincere thanks for his long and valuable services in this responsible position. Mr. Theodore Lyman was unanimously elected Treasurer. The Curator submitted his report on the expenditures during the year, which was accepted and ordered to be printed. The Curator read his report on the operations of the Museum during the year, which was accepted and ordered to be printed. The Treasurer was authorized to pay to the Curator the income of the funds for the ensuing year. Hon. Charles Francis Adams resigned his position on the Board of Trustees. The Hoard, in accepting his resignation, expressed deep regret that he should feel compelled thus to sever his connection with them, and offered him their grateful acknowledgments and best wishes. Mr. John C. Phillips of Boston was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy on the Board created by the retirement of Mr. Adams. The meeting then adjourned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
During his spare time, William Baker Nickerson investigated sites from New England to the Midwest and into the Canadian Prairies. In the course of exploration, he created an elegant and detailed record of discoveries and developed methods which later archaeologists recognized as being ahead of their time. By middle age, he was en route to becoming a professional contract archaeologist. However, after a very good start, during World War I archaeological commissions disappeared and failed to recover for many years afterward. Consequently, in spite of heroic efforts, Nickerson was unable to restore his scientific career and died in obscurity. His life story spans the transition of North American archaeology from museums and historical societies to universities, throwing light on a phase of history that is little known.
A comprehensive portrait of the controversial self-taught archaeologist C. C. Abbott. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Conrad Abbott, a medical doctor and self-taught archaeologist, gained notoriety for his theories on early humans. He believed in an American Paleolithic, represented by an early Ice Age occupation of the New World that paralleled that of Europe, a popular scientific topic at the time. He attempted to prove that the Trenton gravels—glacial outwash deposits near the Delaware River—contained evidence of an early, primitive population that pre-dated Native Americans. His theories were ultimately overturned in acrimonious public debate with government scientists, most notably William Henry Holmes of the Smithsonian Institution. His experience—and the rise and fall of his scientific reputation—paralleled a major shift in the field toward an increasing professionalization of archaeology (and science as a whole). This is the first biography of Charles Conrad Abbott to address his archaeological research beyond the Paleolithic debate, including his early attempts at historical archaeology on Burlington Island in the Delaware River, and prehistoric Middle Woodland collections made throughout his lifetime at Three Beeches in New Jersey, now the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark. It also delves into his modestly successful career as a nature writer. As an archaeologist, he held a position with the Peabody Museum at Harvard University and was the first curator of the American Section at the Penn Museum. He also attempted to create a museum of American archaeology at Princeton University. Through various sources including archival letters and diaries, this book provides the most complete picture of the quirky and curmudgeonly, C. C. Abbott.
Excerpt from Report of the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Vol. 3: In Connection With Harvard University, 1880-86 The first volume of the Reports of the Peabody Museum was made up in 1876, and contained all the Reports of the late Professor J effries Wyman, the first Curator, whose services in the original organization of the Museum, until his lamented death in 1874, can never be too highly appreciated. That volume con tained, also, a Report by Professor Asa Gray, the Cu rator pro tempore during a part of the years 1874 and 1875, together with two Reports of Mr. F. W. Put nam, who was appointed Curator in the latter year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Becoming Hopi is a comprehensive look at the history of the people of the Hopi Mesas as it has never been told before. The product of more than fifteen years of collaboration between tribal and academic scholars, this volume presents groundbreaking research demonstrating that the Hopi Mesas are among the great centers of the Pueblo world.