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Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914

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Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 – March 18, 1914) was an American archaeologist after whom Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico is named.

Bandelier was born in Bern, Switzerland. When a youth he emigrated to the United States. After 1880 he devoted himself to archaeological and ethnological work among the Indians of the southwestern United States, Mexico and South America. Beginning his studies in Sonora (Mexico), Arizona and New Mexico, he made himself the leading authority on the history of this region, and — with F. H. Cushing and his successors — one of the leading authorities on its prehistoric civilization.

In 1892 he abandoned this field for Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, where he continued ethnological, archaeological and historical investigations. In the first field he was in a part of his work connected with the Hemenway Archaeological Expedition and in the second worked for Henry Villard of New York, and for the American Museum of Natural History of the same city. Bandelier had shown the falsity of various historical myths, notably in his conclusions respecting the Inca civilization of Peru.

Sources

Publications

  • On the Art of War and Mode of Warfare of the Ancient Mexicans; On the Distribution and Tenure of Lands and the Customs with respect to Inheritance among the Ancient Mexicans; On the Social Organization and Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans (Harvard University, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Annual Reports, 1877, 1878, 1879)
  • Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos (1881)
  • Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico in 1884 (1884)
  • Final Report of Investigations among the Indians of the South-western United States (1890—1892, 2 vols.)
  • Contributions to the History of the South-western Portion of the United States carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885 (1890)
  • Aboriginal myths and traditions concerning the island of Titicaca, Bolivia. (1904)

References

  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Books

The Delight Makers
Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction Papers of the School of American Archaeology, No. 13

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