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Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield) Moore
1852–1936
Best known as C. B. Moore, he was a wealthy Philadelphia-born archaeologist who spent decades exploring Native American mound sites across the American South. His self-funded expeditions and detailed reports helped preserve records of places that were later damaged or lost.
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Additional mounds of Duval and of Clay counties, Florida; Mound investigation on the east coast of Florida; Certain Florida coast mounds north of the St. Johns river
by Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield) Moore
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1852, Clarence Bloomfield Moore studied at Harvard and later turned his energy and family resources toward archaeology. He became known as C. B. Moore and carried out extensive fieldwork in the southeastern United States at a time when much of the region's archaeological record had not yet been systematically described.
Moore traveled widely along Southern rivers, often using a steam-powered boat as a base for his expeditions. From the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth, he investigated Native American mounds and burial sites in states including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas, then published careful reports that made his work influential for later researchers.
Today, Moore is remembered both for the scale of his explorations and for the large body of documentation he left behind. Although archaeology has changed greatly since his era, his writings remain an important historical source for understanding sites in the Southeast.