David Brainard Spooner

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Kanishka Casket
in Shah-ji-ki-Dheri.
Excavation under Spooner of Mauryan remains of a wooden palissade at the Bulandi Bagh site, 1912-13.

David Brainerd Spooner (February 7, 1879 - January 30, 1925) was an American archaeologist and linguist. He was born at Vernon, Vermont.[1]

Spooner graduated from

Benares (1901–02) and the Sanskrit College in Benares, (1902–03). Finally, through a Harvard fellowship, he received a Ph.D. from Frederick William University in Berlin, 1906.[3][4]

Spooner worked and wrote extensively in the areas of archaeology, Indian religion, Indian history, as well as languages and linguistics.

Nalanda.[6]

He assisted the

O.B.E.

He died in Agra, India, at the age of 46, on January 30, 1925.

Works

  • The Zoroastrian period of Indian history, by David Brainerd Spooner, 1915

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References

  1. ISBN 978-5-87871-779-3
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  2. ISBN 978-0-8078-7615-2
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  3. ^ Online archives of California
  4. doi:10.1017/S0035869X0006915X
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  5. ^ Stanford University Library
  6. doi:10.1017/S0035869X0006915X
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