Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson
Residence	Curator of Prehistoric Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Occupation	museum work
Society Membership membership Corresponding fellow elected 8 Jan 1889 elected_AI 1889.01.22

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proposed 8 Jan. 1889

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Thomas Wilson, Curator of Prehistoric Anthropology

He was a member of the field staff at the Chicago World's Fair of 1883. He served as the first curator of the Ohio Historical Society and director of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Philips Academy in Andover. He would later gain great acclaim for his excavations in and around Cahokia

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External Publications

The swastika, the earliest known symbol and its migrations