Setting the Agenda for American Archaeology : the National Research Council Archaeological Conferences of 1929, 1932 and 1935.

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This collection elucidates the key role played by the National Research Council seminars, reports, and pamphlets in setting an agenda that has guided American archaeology in the 20th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, the fascination that Americans had for the conti...

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Main Author: O'Brien, Michael J.
Other Authors: Lyman, R. Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Series:Classics Southeast Archaeology.
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