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Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
1840–1914
A pioneering explorer of the ancient Southwest, he helped bring the cliff dwellings and Indigenous histories of New Mexico to wider attention. His work ranged far beyond one region, taking him into Mexico and South America as one of the early researchers of the Americas’ past.
6 Audiobooks
Catalogo de los Objetos Etnologicos y Arqueologicos Exhibidos por la Expedición Hemenway
by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (1892- )
Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)
by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I
by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
The Delight Makers
by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction Papers of the School of American Archaeology, No. 13
by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
The Gilded Man (El Dorado) and other pictures of the Spanish occupancy of America
by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
About the author
Born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1840, he moved to the United States as a child and later became a largely self-taught historian, ethnologist, and archaeologist. After leaving his family’s business path behind, he devoted himself to studying the peoples and ruins of the American Southwest.
He is especially remembered for his fieldwork in New Mexico, where his studies of Pueblo sites helped shape early archaeological understanding of the region. His research also extended into Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, and he spent later years working with Spanish colonial records in Seville.
He died in Seville in 1914. Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico was named in his honor, reflecting the lasting impact of his work on the study of the Southwest.