Four Anthropologists: An American Science in Its Early Years Paperback initiated the sophisticated use of

initiated the sophisticated use of stratigraphy in archaeological studies

“This fascinating and remarkably erudite biography recounts the life of the early American physician Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846)

A scholarly work illustrated with a handful of black-and-white photographs

The letters tell of increasing loneliness in her older years after the deaths of her son and husband

” John Flamsteed

Four Anthropologists: An American Science in Its Early Years Paperback initiated the sophisticated use ofMark, Joan, 1981 Four Anthropologists: An American Science in Its Early Years describes the activities and work of leading American anthropologists during the years 18651900, before and just after the arrival of Franz Boas from Germany. Paradoxically, the achievements of the American anthropological community at that time, though acknowledged in Europe, were soon forgotten or downgraded in the United States. Using both private correspondence and