Adolph (Francis Alphonse) Bandelier

Explorer, archaeologist, and writer, born in Bern, Switzerland. Brought by his family to Illinois in 1848, he returned to Switzerland to study geology at the University of Bern, then went back to Illinois and worked in a bank. He continued to study on his own, and after a visit to Mexico (1877) published several works on the Aztecs (late 1870s). These gained him the sponsorship of the Archaelogical Institute of America, so he set off to the Southwest (1880), and for the next decade he lived with the Pueblo Indians, studying their ways and history and engaging in excavations resulting in further publications. In 1892 he went to Peru and Bolivia to continue his research. Back in the USA (1903) he joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught at Columbia University. In 1911, having joined the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he went to continue his researches in Spain, and died in Seville. As a scholar he worked to dispose of such legends as Quivira and the Seven Cities of Cibola, but he himself wrote two novels, The Delight Makers (1890) and The Gilded Man (1893). His early work in the Southwest gained him the distinction of being called the first American archaeologist.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840-1914) was an American archaeologist after whom Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico is named. After 1880 he devoted himself to archaeological and ethnological work among the Indians of the southwestern United States, Mexico and South America. Beginning his studies in Sonora (Mexico), Arizona and New Mexico, he made himself the leading authority on the history of this region, and — with F. In the first field he was in a part of his work connected with the Hemenway Archaeological Expedition and in the second worked for Henry Villard of New York, and for the American Museum of Natural History of the same city. On the Social Organization and Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans (Harvard University, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Annual Reports, 1877, 1878, 1879) Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos (1881) Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico in 1884 (1884) Final Report of Investigations among the Indians of the South-western United States (1890—1892, 2 vols.) Contributions to the History of the South-western Portion of the United States carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885 (1890)