BANDELIER, ADOLPH FRANCIS ALPHONSE (184o- )

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BANDELIER, ADOLPH FRANCIS ALPHONSE (184o- ) , American archaeologist, was born in Bern, Switzerland, on the 6th of August 184o. When a youth he emigrated to the United States. After 188o he devoted himself to archaeological and ethnological

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among the Indians of the south-western 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, andwith F. H.

Cushing

and his successorsone of the leading authorities on its prehistoric civilization. In 1892 he abandoned this field for

Ecuador

ECUADOR (officially La Republica del Ecuador)

, Bolivia and Peru, where he continued ethnological, archaeological and historical investigations. In the first field he was in a part of his

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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 has shown the falsity of various historical myths, notably in his conclusions respecting the Inca civilization of Peru. His publications include: three studies " 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," and " 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, and Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos (1881) ; Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico in 1881 (1884); Final Report of Investigations among the Indians of the South-western United States (189o-1892, 2 vols.); Contributions to the History of the South-western Portion of the United States carried on mainly in the years from 188o to 1885-(189o) ,all these in the Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America, American

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, constituting vols. i.-v.; " The Romantic School of American Archaeologists " (New

York

Historical Society, 1885); The Gilded Man (El Dorado) and other Pictures of the Spanish Occupancy of America (1893); and a report On the Relative Antiquity of Ancient Peruvian Burials (American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin, v. 30, 1904). He also edited The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
. from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 (1905), translated into English by his wife.

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