biography
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Putnam, Frederic Ward
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| male
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| lived:
| (1839–1915)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and ethnographer, born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He trained as a zoologist, and was appointed curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard (1875–1909), becoming professor of American archaeology and ethnology from 1887, then curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1894. Pioneering the study of archaeological remains of native Americans, he led field expeditions to Ohio, New Jersey, the American southwest, Mexico, and South America. |
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