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Through systematic survey and excavation, the Bureau of Ethnology concluded that the 'Mound Builders' were direct ancestors of contemporary Native American tribes, debunking diffusionist theories that cited symbolic parallels such as world tree motifs as evidence for Old World origins.
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Worked under director William Henry Holmes in anthropological research and policy.
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