{"product_id":"american-antiquities-revisiting-the-origins-of-american-archaeology-9780803268425","title":"American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology","description":"Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology's trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized profession, rather than being a linear progression, was an untidy organic process that emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism. It then closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century, especially with geology and the debate about the origins and identity of the indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about \"Mound Builders\" and \"American Indians.\" Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the problematic use of the term \"race\" as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper--a concept and construct that does not in all instances translate into current understanding and usage. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Antiquities\u003c\/i\u003e uses this early discourse on the mounds to reframe perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Terry A. Barnhart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803268425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry A. Barnhart is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEphraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43197319512179,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":111.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_170e756c-a576-4bd7-b967-a370c7f1588a.jpg?v=1752664962","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/american-antiquities-revisiting-the-origins-of-american-archaeology-9780803268425","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}