Definition: Frederic Ward Putnam was a nineteenth century American archaeologist at the Peabody Museum. He was one of the scholars who, like Charles C. Abbott, instigated the fruitless search for very ancient man in the New World, taking interest in the studies at the Trenton Gravels. He also excavated at Serpent Mound in Ohio in the late 1880s, and founded anthropological research foundation at Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley.
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This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Sources for the term include the references listed on the front page of the Dictionary, and the websites listed in the sidebar. Any mistakes are the responsibility of Kris Hirst.
