The Field Diary of an Archaeological Collector - Couverture rigide

Moorehead, Warren King; Hodge, Frederick Webb

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1354272749 ISBN 13 : 9781354272749

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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The Field Diary of an A rchaeologicaiO ollbctou. CHAPTER I. I cannot recall the exact date but it was either 1879 or 80. I was visiting relatives in Musliingum County, Ohio, near Rix Mills. A doctor residing there had opened a small mound. On visiting the spot a short time afterward, my cousin and myself found broken bones scattered about the surface. None of them were large, but I secured the head of a femur and have since religiously preserved it as a most treasured possession. Returning.to my home at Xenia, Ohio, I mentioned the mound toM r. Jacob A nkeney, a collector, and showed him the bone fragment. A nkeney took me to his home and explained the various objects comprising his cabinet. I used to haunt his house and can remember with what pride I carried home a box of broken axes, flint implements and rejects which he presented, to interest the boy as he told my father. In 87 or 88 he proposed that we buy Fort A ncient, and we visited the work with that idea in view. It was then offered for sale at less than half the amount paid by theS tate ofO hio some years later. In 80 and 81 I read all the books relating to Indians or archaeology that the library afforded. In the summer of 1882 a picnic party was organized to visit Fort A ncient, and in 1885 we made another excur sion to the place. I had never seen the Fort and as Judge Munger, a prominent citizen, was interested in antiquities, he invited me to accompany him. The diary entry made that night shows what an Impression the remarkable work made on the mind of a green country lad. There Is a statement to the effect that some day I hope to be able to explore this wonderful mound-builders ruin, etc. Following the Judge around the embankments, I eagerly drank in all that was said. On the way to the railway station I purchased about forty flint implements and a celt of a farmer. During the early eighties I
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1354272749
• ISBN 13: 9781354272749
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible