The Gilded Man (El Dorado) and other pictures of the Spanish occupancy of America

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was a Swiss and American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the new fields of archeology and ethnology.