Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Charles H. Fairbanks was an American archaeologist famous for the excavation of the Ocmulgee Mounds site in central Georgia, one of the most important prehistoric Native American sites in the United States. His ongoing groundbreaking work led him to found African American slave archaeology in the late 1960s. Among his many publications are Archaeology of the Funeral Mound: Ocmulgee National Monument and The Plantation Archaeology of the Southeast Coast.
Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Charles H. Fairbanks was an American archaeologist famous for the excavation of the Ocmulgee Mounds site in central Georgia, one of the most important prehistoric Native American sites in the United States. His ongoing groundbreaking work led him to found African American slave archaeology in the late 1960s. Among his many publications are Archaeology of the Funeral Mound: Ocmulgee National Monument and The Plantation Archaeology of the Southeast Coast.
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