Terry A. Barnhart is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (Nebraska, 2005).

"American Antiquities is an excellent volume that accomplishes a great deal. It deserves high praise and to be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the roots of the Archaeology profession as it developed in a particular social context."-Robert A. Cook, Journal of Anthropological Research "[A] superb historiography."-Timothy R. Pauketat, Antiquities "Anyone interested in the diverse motivations for the massive and widespread19th-Century archaeological excavations at American mortuary sites of later prehistoric times would be well served to read Terry Barnhart's American Antiquities."-Kenneth B. Farnsworth, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology “Americans are reminded constantly of our diverse modern society. In his important and interesting book, Barnhart shows readers that diverse aboriginal cultures occupied the American continent for thousands of years. American Antiquities contains detailed, substantial, and well-referenced information on the early historic encounter with ancient America and its implications.”-Francis P. McManamon, general editor of Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia   “Terry Barnhart is notably the world’s foremost expert on E. G. Squier. This work broadens the discussion [of mound building] by picking up earlier influences on nineteenth-century speculations about the Ohio Valley mounds, as well as delving into more of the impact of Squier on his contemporaries. Barnhart has pulled together a number of contributors to the history of mound builders that are not in other histories of the field. This volume provides a rich new perspective on this component of American antiquarianism.”-David L. Browman, author of Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editors’ IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Historicizing the Origins of American Archaeology1. American Antiquities: A Grand Theme for Speculation2. Rediscovering the Mounds: Scientific Enquiry and the Westward Movement3. Antiquaries, Ideas, and Institutions: More Testimony from the Mounds4. A Dialectical Discourse: Constructing the Mound Builder Paradigm5. American Archaeology: An Infant Science Emerges6. Origin, Era, and Region: An Expanding Field of Archaeological Enquiry7. Archaeology as Anthropology: The Coming of the Curators and ProfessorsNotesBibliographyIndex