Boston, MA, Archaeological Institute of America

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The Archaeological Institute of America was established in 1879 in order to promote interest in archaeology by the Harvard Professor Charles Eliot Norton. 

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Local socities of the AIA subscribed to the funds no doubt to support archaeological work and to procure objects on behalf of the members for local museums in the United States. 

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