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Bandelier, Adolph (Francis Alphonse)
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pronunciation:
[bandeleer]
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| Explorer, archaeologist, and writer, born in Bern, Switzerland. Brought by his family to Illinois in 1848, he returned to Switzerland to study geology at the University of Bern, then went back to Illinois and worked in a bank. He continued to study on his own, and after a visit to Mexico (1877) published several works on the Aztecs (late 1870s). These gained him the sponsorship of the Archaelogical Institute of America, so he set off to the Southwest (1880), and for the next decade he lived with the Pueblo Indians, studying their ways and history and engaging in excavations resulting in further publications. In 1892 he went to Peru and Bolivia to continue his research. Back in the USA (1903) he joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught at Columbia University. In 1911, having joined the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he went to continue his researches in Spain, and died in Seville. As a scholar he worked to dispose of such legends as Quivira and the Seven Cities of Cibola, but he himself wrote two novels, The Delight Makers (1890) and The Gilded Man (1893). His early work in the Southwest gained him the distinction of being called the first American archaeologist. |
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