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BANDELIER, ADOLPH See also:FRANCIS See also:ALPHONSE (184o- ) , See also:American archaeologist, was See also:born in See also:Bern, See also:Switzerland, on the 6th of See also:August 184o. When a youth he emigrated to the See also:United States. After 188o he devoted himself to archaeological and ethnological See also:work among the See also:Indians of the See also:south-western United States, See also:Mexico and South See also:America. Beginning his studies in Sonora (Mexico), See also:Arizona and New Mexico, he made himself the leading authority on the See also:history of this region, and—with F. H. See also:Cushing and his successors—one of the leading authorities on its prehistoric See also:civilization. In 1892 he abandoned this See also:field for See also:Ecuador, See also:Bolivia and See also:Peru, where he continued ethnological, archaeological and See also:historical investigations. In the first field he was in a See also:part of his work connected with the Hemenway Archaeological Expedition and in the second worked for See also:Henry See also:Villard of New See also:York, and for the American Museum of Natural History of the same See also: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 See also:Art of See also:War and Mode of Warfare of the See also:Ancient Mexicans," " On the See also:Distribution and See also:Tenure of Lands and the Customs with respect to See also:Inheritance among the Ancient Mexicans," and " On the Social Organization and Mode of See also:Government of the Ancient Mexicans " (Harvard University, See also:Peabody Museum of American See also:Archaeology and See also:Ethnology, See also:Annual Reports, 1877, 1878, 1879); Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico, and See also:Report on the Ruins of the See also: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 See also:Institute of America, American See also:Series, constituting vols. i.-v.; " The Romantic School of American Archaeologists " (New York Historical Society, 1885); The Gilded See also:Man (El Dorado) and other Pictures of the See also: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 See also:Journey of Alvar See also:Nunez Cabeza de Vaca . from See also:Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 (1905), translated into See also:English by his wife.

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