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Ephraim George Squier
1821 – 1888
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryEphraim George Squier was an American archaeologist, diplomat, and journalist. Born in Bethlehem, New York, he spent his early career in the northeastern United States. There, along with his colleague Edwin H. Davis, he was a prominent investigator of the prehistoric Indian mounds of the Ohio River valley. Squier received national recognition after he co-authored Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848). It was the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
June 17, 1821
New York
Date of death
April 17, 1888
New York City
Citizenship
United States
Occupations & fields
anthropologistarchaeologistjournalistdiplomateditorwriter
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