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

by Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman

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 continent's prehistoric past was leading to a widespread and general destruction of archaeological evidence. In a drive toward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817310843
• ISBN13: 9780817310844
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"