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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-03-14
Format Kindle eBook