TY - GEN N2 - In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution. DO - 10.4159/9780674969711 DO - doi AB - In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution. T1 - Bone Rooms :From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums / AU - Redman, Samuel J., JF - Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1480482 KW - SCIENCE / History. SN - 9780674969711 TI - Bone Rooms :From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969711 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969711 ER -