George Hubbard Pepper was an ethnologist and archaeologist, was born in Tottenville, Staten Island

Tottenville, Staten Island

Tottenville with an area of approx. , is the southernmost neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City and New York State. Originally named Bentley Manor by one of its first settlers, Captain Christopher Billop , after a small ship he owned named the Bentley, the district was renamed Tottenville in...

, New York

New York

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Pepper conducted field workstarting in 1893, including archaeological digs at Burial Ridge

Burial Ridge

Burial Ridge is a Lenape burial ground located on a bluff overlooking Raritan Bay in what is today the Tottenville section of Staten Island. The burial ground, the largest pre-European burial ground in New York City is unmarked and lies today within Conference House Park.Evidence of prior Native...

, the largest pre-European burial ground in New York City. In 1895, he was contracted by the American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...

 to continue his work at the sitelocated in the Tottenville section of Staten Island. In 1915, he traveled to Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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 to explore the Nacoochee Mound

Nacoochee Mound

The Nacoochee Mound is a prehistoric earthen mound on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in White County, in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Georgia, at the junction of Georgia Highways 17 and 75...

 in the state's old Cherokee

Cherokee

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 region. In 1917, as a result of this exploration, Pepper published The Nacoochee Mound Report. From 1896 to 1900, George Pepper led the excavation of the Pueblo Bonito

Pueblo Bonito

Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126....

 great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. His work there was supported by the Hyde

Hyde

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brothers and the American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...

, New York. Pepper later returned to New York, where he died on May 13, 1924.