Bone Rooms. From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, Paperback

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