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.

• | Author: Samuel J. Redman
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: March 14, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674660412
• | ISBN-13: 9780674660410