English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

This volume contains historical studies of several sciences aspracticed at Harvard University. Two of these studies have relevance to the history ofarchaeology. A chapter by Toby Appel focuses upon the scientific career of JeffriesWyman, first curator of Harvard's Peabody Museum. She contrasts Wyman's unassumingcharacter with the dominating personality of his mentor and contemporary Louis Agassiz.Trained as a medical doctor, Wyman's main love was zoology, particularly comparativeanatomy. In his mid-40s, he encountered his first shell midden and was bitten by thearchaeology bug. Soon he was doing pioneering excavation in both New England andFlorida. In 1866, he was selected to be the curator of the Peabody Museum, primarilyupon his strong museum background but also because of the high regard with which he washeld by certain influential people. His selection to this position may have made himAmerica's first professional archaeologist. His principal responsibilities were tocollect and display archaeological and ethnological specimens and he made great steps inthis direction prior to his death in 1874. Wyman's scientific work was poorly known orstudied (he is best noted for having made the first scientific description of thegorilla), in part, Appel argues, because he did not seek acclaim or controversy. Hisgreatest influence was locally through personal interactions with students andcolleagues. His archaeological work is only briefly discussed in this and the followingarticle, and there is still much to be written about this man of highcharacter

Science at Harvard University: Historical Perspectives, edited by Clark A. Elliott and Margaret W. Rossiter. Lehigh University Press, Bethlehem, 1992