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Ambrosetti, Juan Bautista

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Considered the “father” of Argentine archeology, Ambrosetti was born in 1865 in Gualeguay, Entre Rios Province, but lived most of his life in Buenos Aires. He initially became interested in natural sciences, interacting very young with eminent naturalists Eduardo Holmberg, Florentino Ameghino, and Pedro B. Scalabrini. At the age of 20, he visited indigenous reductions in Santa Fe Province and overturned this experience in a first book entitled Viaje de un maturrango, published in 1893 and signed with the pseudonym Tomas Bathata. There he expressed a strong criticism about progress and modern society, in line with the relativistic thinking of his teacher Scalabrini.

Between 1885 and 1891, he lived in the city of Paraná, where he held the positions of Head at the Section of Zoology at Natural Sciences Museum, President of the Library, and Secretary of the Police Department. Once he moved back to Buenos Aires, he undertook expeditions to Misiones Province...

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Nastri, J. (2019). Ambrosetti, Juan Bautista. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2614-2

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