Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
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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