Bone Rooms. From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, Paperback/Samuel J. Redman

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. Publisher: Harvard University Press Author(s): Samuel J. Redman Illustration(s): 25 halftones Number of pages: 408 Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 30 Cover type: Paperback / softback