Relic Hunters
Subtitle: Archaeology and the Public in 19th Century America
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780198736271
Subjects: Archaeology, history; United states, antiquities
Description: Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mounds, and developing their own ideas about antiquity. They experienced the new country as a "place with history" reflected in material traces that became important touch points for scientific knowledge, but for American cultural identity as well.