| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology. By Terry A. Barnhart. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii, 425 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8032-1321-2.)

Ephraim George Squier has long been recognized by students of American archaeology and American studies as the primary author (with Edwin H. Davis) of Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848), the groundbreaking study of North American artificial, indigenous mounds that was also the Smithsonian Institution's initial scientific publication. Although he worked and published for forty more years, Squier's subsequent travel, fieldwork, and scholarly and popular publications in archaeology and anthropology, ranging from upstate New York to Central America and the Peruvian Andes, have been largely ignored. Terry A. Barnhart's biography of Squier is the first full-length study of an ambitious and accomplished individual who always considered himself essentially a writer but also craved recognition as an explorer and scientist. It also fills a historical void surrounding midcentury Americanist archaeology and sheds considerable light on the professional and personal struggles of would-be scientists operating under conditions of inchoate, always uncertain, institutional and financial support.

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