List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Historicizing the Origins of American Archaeology
1. American Antiquities: A Grand Theme for Speculation
2. Rediscovering the Mounds: Scientific Enquiry and the Westward Movement
3. Antiquaries, Ideas, and Institutions: More Testimony from the Mounds
4. A Dialectical Discourse: Constructing the Mound Builder Paradigm
5. American Archaeology: An Infant Science Emerges
6. Origin, Era, and Region: An Expanding Field of Archaeological Enquiry
7. Archaeology as Anthropology: The Coming of the Curators and Professors
Notes
Bibliography
Index