Swiss historian, explorer, archaeologist and anthropologist born in Bern and naturalized American, considered the father of archeology in America.and particularly famous for his work in South America and Central. He emigrated to Illinois (1848), returned to Switzerland to study geology at the University of Bern and returned to Illinois to work in a bank. Then he decided to dedicate himself to the archaeological and ethnological study of the indigenous populations of the North American Southwest, Mexico and South America.
After studying in isolation and visiting Sonora, Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico, he published several works on the Aztecs (1877) and other prehistoric civilizations. Working for the Archaelogical Institute of America he lived in and started excavations with American Indians from the Southwest (1880). He passed through Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia (1892), where he continued his research on the Inca civilization, and he joined the American Museum of Natural History (1903) in New York, becoming a professor at Columbia University. He joined the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1911) and went to continue his research in Spain, where he died in Seville.
His main works were the three studies On the Art of War and Mode of Warfare of the Ancient Mexicans, On the Distribution and Tenure of Lands and the Customs with respect to Inheritance among the Ancient Mexicans, and On the Social Organization and Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans published by Harvard University, Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, Annual Reports (1877, 1878, 1879); Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico and Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos (1881); Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico in 1884 (1884); Final Report of Investigations among the Indians of the South-western United States (1890-1892), in two volumes; and Contributions to the History of the South-western Portion of the United States carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885 (1890). and the books Quivira and the Seven Cities of Cibola, The Delight Makers (1890) and The Gilded Man (1893).
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