The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology


Davis, Edwin Hamilton

Davis, Edwin Hamilton (1811–88) [Bi].
American antiquary who, in collaboration with E. G. Squier, did much to describe and document the Ohio mounds and earthen enclosures. Davis was a physician living at Chillicothe, Ohio, who did his archaeology in his spare time.[Bio.: American National Biography, 6, 185–6]

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