Background
They moved to the United States in 1848, settling in Highland, Ill.
anthropologist explorer historian
They moved to the United States in 1848, settling in Highland, Ill.
He became interested in anthropology through contacts with Lewis H. Morgan. Bandelier was probably the first historian in America to attempt critical studies of sources of early American history for their ethnological content, and the first to reconstruct pre-Columbian history from records of early explorers.
Between 1877 and 1880 Bandelier produced important monographs on the Aztec social system and military methods. From 1880 to 1903 he conducted pioneer archaeological field investigations in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. Between 1903 and 1911 he wrote and lectured in New York on Latin-American history. In 1911 he resumed research on archival material in Mexico and later in Spain