Cornelia Horsford
Cornelia Conway Felton Horsford (1861–1944) was an American archaeologist and writer whose work focused on the Norse settlement of Vinland and other possible traces of early Norse exploration and settlement of North America, especially in Massachusetts. Her work was largely a development of earlier researches carried out by her father, Eben Norton Horsford. Biography Cornelia "Nellie" Conway Felton Horsford was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 25, 1861. Her father was the American chemist and amateur archaeologist Eben Norton Horsford, and her mother was his second wife, Phoebe Dayton Gardiner (the sister of his first wife, Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner). Horsford's home was the historic Sylvester Manor, and she was educated at private schools in Cambridge and Boston. Eben Horsford spent the fortune he had made by reformulating baking powder on attempting to prove that the Icelandic explorer Leif Erikson had settled somewhere along the Charles River. Before he die ...
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Archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until the adve ...
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