Bone Rooms
From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
by Samuel J. Redman
408 pages· 2016· ISBN 9780674969711
About
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.
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