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Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield) Moore
1852–1936
A wealthy Philadelphia scholar turned river-traveling explorer, this early American archaeologist documented Native American mound sites across the Southeast in remarkable detail. His field reports and collecting work helped preserve information from places that have since changed or disappeared.
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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 was an American archaeologist and writer, often referred to as C. B. Moore. He studied at Harvard, graduating in 1873, and later devoted much of his life to investigating Native American archaeological sites in the southeastern United States.
Moore became especially known for traveling the region’s rivers in his steam-powered boat, the Gopher, visiting mound sites and publishing detailed reports on what he found. Over roughly two decades, he explored a striking number of sites in states including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and beyond, making him an important figure in the early study of Southeastern archaeology.
His work belongs to an earlier era of archaeology, so modern readers may see both its value and its limits. Even so, his writings remain historically important because they recorded artifacts, burials, and site layouts that later researchers could not always revisit in the same condition. He died in 1936 in St. Petersburg, Florida.