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Archaeology in its widest sense and by derivation includes the investigation of the origin, language, beliefs, customs, arts - everything, in a word, that can be learned of the ancient life of a people.

Cyrus Thomas

To gather and describe antiquities, although thoroughly and intelligently done, is by no means all of archaeology. True, these are to archaeology what the unfashioned and unadjusted materials of which the house is to be built are to the house, but they are not the house.

Cyrus Thomas

Cyrus Thomas

Cyrus Thomas

Born: July 27, 1825

Died: June 26, 1910 (aged 84)

Bio: Cyrus Thomas was a U.S. ethnologist and entomologist prominent in the late 19th century and noted for his studies of the natural history of the American West.

Known for:

Day Symbols of the Maya Year (1897)
Problem Of The Ohio Mounds (1889)
The Cherokees In Pre-Columbian Times (1890)

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