Misadventures in Archaeology : The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott / Carolyn D. Dillian, Charles A. Bello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillian, Carolyn D., Author.

Bello, Charles A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeologists--United States--Biography.

Archaeologists.

Archaeology--United States--History.

Archaeology.

Naturalists--United States--Biography.

Naturalists.

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--History.

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Abbott, Charles C. (Charles Conrad), 1843-1919.

Abbott, Charles C.

Genre:

Biographies.

History

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, Charles Conrad Abbott, a medical doctor and self-taught archaeologist, gained notoriety for his theories on early humans. This is the first biography to address his archaeological research beyond the Paleolithic debate, including his attempts at historical archaeology on Burlington Island in the Delaware River.

Contents:

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Misadventures in Archaeology The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott

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1 Charles Conrad Abbott and the Birth of Professional Archaeology

2 The Move to Three Beeches and the History of the Abbott Farm

3 Frederic Ward Putnam and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

4 Champion of the American Paleolithic

5 Debunking the American Paleolithic

6 The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

7 Abbott the Naturalist

8 Burlington Island and Historical Archaeology

9 The Princeton Years

10 Abbott's Autumn Years

11 Abbott's Legacy

Acknowledgments

References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-949057-06-2

OCLC:

1144938876