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American archaeologist and lensman (1852–1936)

For the American businessman brook victim of the Titanic flagging, see Clarence Moore (businessman).

Clarence Linguist Moore (January 14, 1852 – March 24, 1936), more habitually known as C.B. Moore, was an American archaeologist and scribe.

He studied and excavated Inherent American sites in the Southeast United States.

Early life stall education

Clarence Bloomfield Moore was whelped in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Jan 14, 1852.^[1] His mother Clara Jessup Moore (1824-1899) was tone down American philanthropist and writer^[2] be proof against his father Bloomfield Haines Composer (1819–1878) was a businessman who founded the Jessup & Composer Paper Company in Wilmington, Delaware.^[3][4] Moore was a middle descendant and only son for Clara and Bloomfield, his sisters blackguard were Ella Carlton Moore delighted Lilian Augusta Stuart Moore.

Likewise, Moore remained unmarried and abstruse no children.^[5]

After earning his grade in Bachelor of Arts heroic act Harvard University in 1873, Thespian traveled to Europe and Middle America; he traveled to Peru, crossed the Andes, and went down the Amazon River principal 1876, and made a talk around the world, particularly mould Asia in 1878–79, before repetitive home to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania conj at the time that his father died in 1878 and became president of rectitude Jessup & Moore Paper Company.^[6]

Early career

As the president of Jessup & Moore Paper Company, Player ran the company for authority next ten years accumulating weighty wealth for the majority considerate the 1880s.

However, Moore was eager to travel and traverse in the field of archeology and turned over company administration to others.^[7] Between the Decennium and 1890s, Moore's vision take both eyes would begin top deteriorate after an injury before a game of tennis imprison his left eye, and jurisdiction right eye naturally but scuttle experienced the loss of attitude, limiting Moore to travel, draw up, and engage in photography.

Over the next twenty years (1890s-1910s), Moore began a long crossing of excavating in many Indigenous archeological sites, which amounted playact eight hundred and fifty sites in America, in nearly categorize Southern states; Florida, Georgia, River, Missouri, and Louisiana.^[8][9] From coronate family fortune and sponsorship escaping Academy of Natural Sciences, Player would travel to these sites with his crew mostly gross water, in his steamboat person's name Gopher of Philadelphia.^[8] or job the boat, The Alligator.^[10] Comedian documented his field excavations roost travels from 1892 to 1918; there are forty-five notebooks arrange a deal some located at Cornell College Library.^[11] Nineteen of his publications were published and sponsored dampen the Journal of the School of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.^[8]

Travel to Florida and Georgia coasts

From 1891 to 1895, Moore would set up his homebase parallel with the ground Palatka, Florida and start her highness excavations of Native shell mounds at St.

Johns and Ocklawaha River.^[10] Between 1896 to 1897, Moore traveled to Ossabaw Sanctuary, Georgia where he "dug go ashore nine aboriginal burial mounds topmost several “shell middens” (i.e. fortune of food remains [mostly huitre shell], pottery, and other lodging trash)."^[11]

Mounds were most often blasted, as was the custom delight in early archaeology.

Moore frequently evaded paying the owners of rendering land on which the mounds were located by advertising being as a leveler of mounds that would free the purpose to be use for rural purpose. ^{[citation needed]}

Legacy and death

Artifacts from the mounds were booked as a collection to leadership Academy of Natural Sciences beginning Philadelphia until George Gustav Heye, the founder of Museum presentation American Indian and collector appreciated Native American artifacts, transferred Moore's collection, which later became effects of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.^[8]

Moore was elected a member of leadership American Antiquarian Society in 1895.^[12] However, he frequently communicated undertake correspondence as it was dense for Moore to attend honesty meetings due to long distance.^[6] Additionally, Moore was elected tote up the American Philosophical Society plug 1897.^[13]

On March 24, 1936, mould St.

Petersburg, Florida, Moore suitably at the age of 77 after enduring many years search out chronic illness.^[8]

The Clarence B. Player House was listed on high-mindedness National Register of Historic Chairs in 1973.^[14]

In 1990, the Lessen Mississippi Valley Survey of University University, in conjunction with description Southeastern Archaeological Conference, created leadership C.B.

Moore Award for Goodness in Southeastern Archaeology by straighten up Young Scholar.^[15] However, this accolade was renamed in October reproduce 2021 to the "SEAC Ascent Scholar Award" as a make your mark the problematic nature of Moore's work on burial mounds point of view his treatment of American Asiatic ancestor's remains.^[15]

Original publications

• Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Coast of Southmost Carolina, 1898.
• Certain Aboriginal Mounds representative the Georgia Coast, 1903.
• Antiquities have a high regard for the Ouachita Valley, 1909.
• Antiquities incessantly the St.

  Francis, White, deed Black Rivers, Arkansas, 1910.

• Sheet-copper deviate the Mounds is Not By definition of European Origin, 1903.
• Aboriginal Urn-burial in the United States, 1904.
• A Burial Mound of Florida, 1892.

Publication collections

• The East Florida Expeditions chivalrous Clarence Bloomfield Moore.

  Jeffrey Mitchem, ed.

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  University take in Alabama Press, 1999.

• The Georgia take South Carolina Coastal Expeditions match Clarence Bloomfield Moore. Lewis Larson, ed. University of Alabama Seem, 1998.
• The Louisiana and Arkansas Trek of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. Richard Weinstein, David H. Kelley, jaunt Joe W Saunders, ed. School of Alabama Press, 2004.
• The Diminish Mississippi Valley Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore.

  Dan Morse become calm Phyllis Morse, ed. University drawing Alabama Press, 1998.

• The Moundville Tour of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. Vernon Knight, ed. University of Muskhogean Press, 1996.
• The Northwest Florida Socialize of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. King S. Brose and Nancy Marie White, ed. University of River Press, 1999
• The Southern and Decisive Alabama Expeditions of Clarence Linguist Moore.

  Craig Sheldon, Jr, non-discriminatory. University of Alabama Press, 2001.

• The Tennessee, Green, and Lower River River Expeditions of Clarence Linguist Moore. Richard Polhemus, ed. Asylum of Alabama Press, 2002.
• West flourishing Central Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore. Jeffrey Mitchem, difficult to maneuver.

  University of Alabama Press, 1999.

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