December 6, 1880

Antiquities collector Edwin Curtiss died of a sudden heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee. Curtiss was a nonprofessional field man who excavated archaeological sites in Arkansas. He is credited by Arkansas archaeologists with making the first scientific archaeological excavation in the state.

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