Misadventures in Archaeology: The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott

A comprehensive portrait of the controversial self-taught archaeologist C. C. Abbott. In the late nineteenth century, Charôles Conrad Abbott, a medical doctor and self-taught archaeologist, gained notoriety for his théories on early humans. He believed in an American Paleolithic, represented by an early Ice Age occupation of the New World that paralleled that of Europe, a popular scientific topic at the time. He attempted to prove that the Trenton gravels-glacial outwash deposits near the D...