Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Historicizing the Origins of American Archaeology -- 1. American Antiquities: A Grand Theme for Speculation -- 2. Rediscovering the Mounds: Scientific Enquiry and the Westward Movement -- 3. Antiquaries, Ideas, and Institutions: More Testimony from the Mounds -- 4. A Dialectical Discourse: Constructing the Mound Builder Paradigm -- 5. American Archaeology: An Infant Science Emerges -- 6. Origin, Era, and Region: An Expanding Field of Archaeological Enquiry -- 7. Archaeology as Anthropology: The Coming of the Curators and Professors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.