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The work surveys archaeological and paleoecological evidence for human presence in the Americas, tracing debates about how and when people arrived, the Ice Age environments they encountered, and the artifacts and faunal remains that define early cultural complexes. It explains field methods and dating advances that clarified chronological sequences, reviews competing migration routes and hypotheses, and describes major tool traditions and site discoveries that shaped scholarly discussion. Emphasizing how new techniques reshaped interpretations, it presents a balanced overview of the evolving picture of prehistoric settlement while highlighting remaining uncertainties and areas for further research.

[1]Erland Nordenskiöld, Modifications in Indian Customs Through Inventions and Loans (Comparative Ethnographical Studies, no. 8, 1930), 23-24.
[2]Nordenskiöld, “Origin of the Indian Civilizations in South America,” in The American Aborigines (1933), 278.
[3]Ibid., 285.
[4]Robert H. Lowie, The History of Ethnological Theory (1937), 165.
[5]Herbert J. Spinden, “The Origin and Distribution of Agriculture in America,” in Source Book in Anthropology (1931), 228.
[6]Carl Sauer, “American Agricultural Origins,” in Essays in Anthropology, ed. R. H. Lowie (1936), 281.
[7]N. I. Vavilov, “Studies on the Origin of Cultivated Plants,” Bulletin of Applied Botany, vol 16, no. 2, pp. 218-219 (1926). S. M. Bukasov and others, “The Cultivated Plants of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia,” 47th Supplement to the Bulletin of Applied Botany, 1930. Other papers listed in Henry J. Bruman, “The Russian Investigations on Plant Genetics in Latin America and Their Bearing on Culture History,” Handbook of Latin American Studies (1937), 287.
[8]Bruman, op. cit., 451.
[9]Sauer, op. cit., 288.
[10]Bruman, op. cit., 456.
[11]Richard S. MacNeish, “Agricultural Origins in Middle America and Their Diffusion into North America,” Katunob, vol. 1, no. 2 (1960), 29.
[12]Harold S. Gladwin, Excavations at Snaketown (Medallion Papers, Gila Pueblo, no. 26, 1937), 2:79.
[13]Bruman, op. cit., 456-457.
[14]O. F. Cook, “Staircase Farms of the Ancients,” National Geographic Magazine, 29:513 (1916).
[15]P. C. Mangelsdorf and R. G. Reeves, The Origin of Indian Corn and Its Relatives (Bulletin No. 574, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1939), 7.
[16]Ibid., 7.
[17]Ibid., 8, 7.
[18]Sauer, op. cit., 292.
[19]G. N. Collins, “The Phylogeny of Maize,” Bulletin, Torrey Botanical Club, 57:203 (1930).
[20]Bruman, op. cit., 457.
[21]Sylvanus G. Morley, The Ancient Maya (1946), 386.
[22]MacNeish, op. cit., 27.
[23]Paul C. Mangelsdorf, “Ancestor of Corn,” Science, 128:1314 (1958).
[24]Paul C. Mangelsdorf and C. Earle Smith, Jr., “A Discovery of Primitive Maize in New Mexico,” Journal of Heredity, 40:39-43 (1949), and “New Archaeological Evidence on Evolution in Maize,” Harvard University Botanical Museum Leaflets, vol. 13, no. 8, 213-247 (Mar., 1949).
[25]Willard F. Libby, Radiocarbon Dating (1955), 133.
[26]Junius Bird, “South American Radiocarbon Dates,” in Radiocarbon Dating (Memoirs, Society for American Archaeology, vol. 17, no. 1, pt. 2, 1951), 48.
[27]Wm. Duncan Strong, ‘Finding the Tomb of a Warrior-God,” National Geographic Magazine, 91:464, 459 (1947). Junius B. Bird, “Preceramic Cultures in Chicama and Virú,” in A Reappraisal of Peruvian Archaeology (Memoirs, Society for American Archaeology, vol. 13, no. 4, pt. 2, 1948), 28. Strong, “Cultural Epochs Refuse Stratigraphy in Peruvian Archaeology,” in A Reappraisal of Peruvian Archaeology, 99.
[28]Carl Sauer, personal communication, 1946.
[29]Oakes Ames, Economic Annuals and Human Cultures (Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1939), 92-93.
[30]Edgar Anderson, “What Is Zea Mays?” Chronica Botanica, 9:89-90 (1945).
[31]C. R. Stonor and Edgar Anderson, “Maize Among the Hill Peoples of Assam,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 36:355-404 (1949).
[32]Mangelsdorf, “Ancestor of Corn,” Science, 128:1313.

Chapter 12

[1]Clark Wissler, “The Origin of the American Indian,” Natural History, 53:313 (1944).
[2]Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., “The New-World Paleo-Indian,” Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1944, 406.
[3]Earnest A. Hooton, Up from the Ape, 1931, 568.
[4]Junius Bird, personal communications, 1945-1947.
[5]A. P. Okladnikov, “Archaeological Data on the Ancient History of the Lake Baikal Region,” Review of Ancient History, vol. 1, pt. 2, fig. 5 (Moscow, 1938). Henry B. Collins, Jr., “Eskimo Archaeology and Its Bearing on the Problem of Man’s Antiquity in America,” Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, 86:229-230 (1943), fig. 5.
[6]George Gaylord Simpson, “Mammals and Land Bridges,” Journal, Washington Academy of Sciences, 40:153 (1940).
[7]Bruce Howe and Hallam L. Movius, Jr., A Stone Age Cave Site in Tangier (Papers, Peabody Museum, vol 28, no. 1, 1947). Gertrude Caton-Thompson, “The Levalloisian Industries in Egypt,” Proceedings, Prehistoric Society, 1946, new ser., 12:57-120.
[8]Carleton S. Coon, The Races of Europe (1939), 46.
[9]W. J. Sollas, Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives (2nd ed., 1915), 485-487, 510-513, 520.
[10]Aleš Hrdlička, “The Coming of Man from Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries,” Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, 71:401 (1932).
[11]Nels C. Nelson, “The Antiquity of Man in America in the Light of Archaeology,” in The American Aborigines, ed. Diamond Jenness (1933), 116.
[12]M. R. Harrington, Cuba Before Columbus, pt. 1 (Indian Notes and Monographs, Museum of the American Indian, 1921), 1:205-206, and Gypsum Cave, Nevada (Southwest Museum Papers, no. 8, 1933), 189-190.
[13]Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1801, 148.
[14]Hallam L. Movius, Jr., Early Man and Pleistocene Stratigraphy in Southern and Eastern Asia (Papers, Peabody Museum, vol. 19, no. 3, 1944), 25-27.
[15]Herbert J. Spinden, World Chronology and the Peopling of America (mimeographed Presidential Address read before the American Anthropological Society, Washington, Dec. 27, 1936), 5.
[16]Herbert J. Spinden, personal communication, 1946.
[17]Spinden, “First Peopling of America As a Chronological Problem,” in Early Man (1937), 106, and World Chronology, etc., 5.
[18]Spinden, World Chronology, etc., 4.
[19]A. S. Loukashkin, “Some Observations on the Remains of a Pleistocene Fauna and of the Paleolithic Age in Northern Manchuria,” in Early Man (1937), 327-340.
[20]Spinden, “Time Scale for the New World.” Proceedings, 8th American Scientific Congress, 2:39 (1942), and World Chronology, etc., 2, 19.
[21]Ernst Antevs, personal communication, 1946.
[22]Kirk Bryan, “Geologic Antiquity of Man in America.” Science, new ser., 93:505-514 (1941).
[23]Carl Sauer, “Early Relations of Man to Plants,” Geographical Review, 37:10 (1947).
[24]Erwin H. Barbour and C. Bertrand Schultz, “Paleontologic and Geologic Consideration of Early Man in Nebraska,” Bulletin, Nebraska State Museum, 1:431 (1936).
[25]George F. Carter, The Idea of the Recency of Man in America (unpublished MS.).
[26]Albrecht Penck, “Wann kamen die Indianer nach Nordamerika?” Proceedings, 23rd International Congress of Americanists (1930), 23-30.
[27]H. V. Walter, A. Cathoud, and Anibal Mattos, “The Confins Man: A Contribution to the Study of Early Man in South America,” in Early Man (1937), 345.
[28]Kirk Bryan, “Correlation of the Deposits of Sandia Cave, New Mexico, with the Glacial Chronology,” Appendix to Hibben, “Evidences of Early Occupation in Sandia Cave” (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, no. 23, 1941, vol. 99), 69.
[29]Ernst Antevs, “Correlation of Wisconsin Glacial Maxima,” American Journal of Science, 243A:29 (1945) and “Dating Records of Early Man in the Southwest,” American Naturalist, 70:336 (1936). Chart in Gladwin, Excavations at Snaketown, 2:73. “Climatic History and the Antiquity of Man in California,” Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, 16:23-29 (1952).
[30]Antevs, “Climate and Early Man in North America,” in Early Man, 128, and “Dating Records, etc.,” 333.
[31]Carl Sauer, “Geographic Sketch of Early Man in America,” Geographical Review, 34:538 (1944).
[32]M. C. Burkitt, The Old Stone Age, 86-87 (1933).

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(In the main, the earliest instances of publication)

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PAGE 62. W. J. Sollas, Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives (1911).

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PAGE 90. Gabriel de Mortillet, Musée Préhistorique (1881).

PAGE 91. W. H. Holmes, Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities (1919).

PAGE 92. Ibid.

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PAGE 100. John Evans, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain (1872).

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PAGE 102. Harold Peake and Herbert John Fleure, Hunters and Artists (1927).

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PAGE 108. E. Lartet and H. Christy, Reliquiae Aquitanicae (1875).

PAGE 108. Michele Mercati, Metallotheca, Opus Posthumum (1717).

PAGE 109. Mark R. Harrington, Gypsum Cave, Nevada (Southwest Museum Papers, no. 8, 1933).

PAGE 110. Emile Cartailhac and Henri Breuil, “La Caverne d’Altamira à Santillane près Santander (Espagne),” Peintures et gravures murales des cavernes paléolithiques (1906). L. Capitan, H. Breuil, and D. Peyroni, “La Caverne de Font-de-Gaume aux Eyzies (Dordogne),” Peintures et gravures murales des cavernes paléolithiques (1910).

PAGE 112. Hugo Obermaier and Paul Wernert, Las Pinturas rupestres del barranco de Valltorta (1919).

PAGE 113. Ibid.

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PAGE 144. Charles C. Abbott, “The Stone Age in New Jersey,” American Naturalist, Vol. 16 (1872).

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INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Abbevillian, as substitution for Chellean, 64
Abbott, C. C., 124;
discoveries of, 145
Abilene points. See Milnes Milnesand points
Acosta, Father José de, believes Old and New Worlds joined, 12, 13
Adhémar, J., on cause of glaciation, 54
Agassiz, Louis, and glacial hypothesis, 46, 47, 121
Agriculture, animals in, 8;
development of, 7, 30, 39, 40, 167, 182;
difference between Mediterranean and New World, 264;
in fertile crescent, 40;
and increase of roundheadness, 211;
of Indian culture, 246, 263-65, 267-68, 272;
and neolithic man, 38, 283;
origins in New World of, 254, 258, 265;
women in, 38, 39, 265
Altamira, paintings discovered at cave of, 110-11
Ameghino, Fiorino, 125-26;
discoveries of, 123-24
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 258
Anderson, Edgar, on Burmese origin of corn, 274-75
Animal fossils, 189-205;
abundance of, 128;
Alaskan, 203;
in association with human bones, 120-21, 123, 126, 130-33, 139, 204, 215, 294
Animals, domesticated, 8, 34
Antevs, Ernst, 150;
and Cochise culture, 167;
dates corn, 273;
and glaciation, 49, 205;
on length of residence of man in New World, 31;
on Minnesota man, 132;
on pluvials, 293, 294
Archeology, beginnings of, 61
Arrow, as precursor of spear point, 105
Ashe, Thomas, on extinct American mammals, 193
Aterians, use of arrowhead by, 107
Atlantis, 16
Aurignacian culture, 99-101;
recognized in ancestry of American Indian, 218, 285-86
Australopithecines, 85-87
B
Badarians, 39
Barbour, Erwin H., on existence of glacial man, 290
Basket Makers, 219, 221-22, 247
Basketry, beginnings of, 38;
in first Christian centuries, 219
Bastian, Adolf, 175;
theory of psychic unity by, 238
Bering Strait, 2, 3. See also Migration routes
crossing of, 2, 16, 17, 24, 60, 219-20, 224, 278;
Palisades culture north of, 188
Bernhardi, A., and glacial hypothesis, 46
Bird, Junius, 274;
discoveries of, 132, 175
Birdsell, Joseph, on origin of early man in New World, 230-31
Bison bison, evolution of, 198-200
Boas, Franz, on diversity of languages, 6
Boucher (de Crèvecoeur) de Perthes, Jacques, 129-30;
discovers reality of glacial man, 63, 64
Bow and arrow, hypothesis on invention of, 108-9, 242
Braidwood, Robert G., on stay of Solutreans in Europe, 102;
time scale of early man by, 65
Breasted, James H., Sr., on advent of agriculture, 39
Bronze Age, limits of, 33, 34
Broom, Robert, and Dart discover southern apes, 85
Brückner, Eduard, and Alpine glaciation, 47;
on duration of glaciation, 55;
on temperatures during glaciation, 53
Bruman, Henry J., 266;
on agriculture in New World, 272-73
Bryan, Kirk, 137, 150;
flints recorded by, 175;
on length of residence of man in New World, 31, 289-90;
on Minnesota man, 132;
on movement of Durst Silts, 163;
on pluvials, 293
Burins, 107
Burkitt, M. C., on pluvials, 294
C
Calaveras skull, dispute with churchmen over, 122
Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. W. H., discoveries of, 160, 169, 175
Carbon 14. See Dating, through radiocarbon
Carter, George F., on existence of glacial man, 183, 290
Catholic church, 191;
explanation of Indians by, 12
Cephalic index, 210-18
Childe, Gordon, on beginnings of archeology, 61;
on invention of writing, 115;
on neolithic civilization, 37, 38;
on Stone Age, 114-15;
on superiority of metal over stone for tools, 34
Clovis man, name change of, xii;
points of, found with extinct mammal fossils, 191
Cochise culture, 167-69
Colbert, Edwin H., on extinction of mammals, 203
Confins man, 131, 293
Conquistadores, 2
Conyers, discoveries of, 61, 62
Coon, Carleton S., on origins of early man in New World, 230, 284
Corn, 267, 268-76;
no wild ancestor for Indian, 263, 272;
origins in New World of, 265
Coup de poing. See Hand axes
Cressman, L. S., discoveries of, 179
Croll, James, on causes of glaciation, 54
Cro-Magnon man, 63, 89, 97, 126;
as part of Aurignacian culture, 99, 100
Culture periods, Ameghino’s, 123;
confusion in determining, 115-18;
history of classification of, 33;
indicated by tools, 65-72;
major divisions of, 33-37;
Mortillet’s, 64, 65, 68
Cummings, Byron, discovers milling stones, 167
Cuvier, cataclysmal explanation of great extinction by, 201
D
Dart, Raymond, 86;
and Broom discover southern apes, 85
Dasypodidae. See Extinct armadillo
Dating, of early man by death of mammals, 189-205, 294;
through pluvial periods, 52, 63;
through pottery, 247;
through radiocarbon, xi, 9, 86, 94-97, 100, 102, 138, 140, 179, 188, 204, 278;
from sloth dung, 160;
of Turin skeletons, 140
Dawn stones. See Eoliths
Diaz (del Castillo), Bernal, on principle of wheel in New World, 30;
on Mexican mammoth bone, 136
Dixon, Roland B., criticizes Rivet’s languages hypothesis, 255;
on cultural diffusion, 243-44;
on origins of early man in New World, 220-22;
on transpacific migration, 30, 218
Douglas, A. E., originates tree-ring count, 49
Dubois, Eugène, 85;
discovers Java man, 81, 82
E
Eden culture, name change of, xii;
points of, 154, 158, 203;
pressure flaking in, 104, 181
Eiseley, Loren C., on Athabasca bison, 200;
on extinction of American mammals, 192-93, 195, 202-3;
questions evidence of historic mastodon, 197
Ekholm, Gordon, on Asia-America diffusion, 258
Engravings, on bone, 172-73
Eoliths, development of tools from, 67, 163;
origin of, 67, 68
Eskimo, 6, 220, 279;
Caspian strain in, 221
Eustatism, 59
Evans, Glen L., discovers Plainview point, 156
Ewing, Maurice, on cause of glaciation, 56, 57
Extinct armadillo, 190
F
Facial index, 211-12
Fertile crescent, 40
Figgins, J. D., discovers Folsom point, 144-46
Fire lenses, 183
Flint knapping, 282-83;
finest, 154;
steps in, 282-83
Flint, Richard F., on last glaciation, 19, 49, 60
Fluorine test, for fossils, 76
Folsom man, dating of, 28, 151-52, 181, 191, 199-201;
Generalized, 156;
pressure flaking in culture of, 104;
spear points of, 144-51, 153-55, 191, 198
Fontechevade man, discovery of, 80
Font Robert point, 100, 105;
appearance of, 107
Frere, John, discoveries of, 62
G
García, Fray Gregorio, on origins of Indians, 14, 15
Geikie, James, and glacial hypothesis, 47
Giddings, J. L., Palisades culture of, 188
Gigantopithecus, 83, 84
Glacial Period. See Great Ice Age
Glaciation. See Ice ages
Gladwin, Harold S., 49, 162;
on advent of Pygmies in New World, 225-26;
on cultural diffusion, 242-43, 246-49;
on independent invention of agriculture, 267;
on invasion of America by Alexander the Great, 249-55;
on various early migrations to New World, 227, 229-30, 247
Great Ice Age, definition of, 44, 45, 48, 60;
large mammals in, 84, 181, 204;
rainfall during, 294;
theory of flake vs. core tools in, 70.
See also Ice ages
Grimaldi man, 102
Günz glaciation, Danubian glaciers before, 47;
determination of time of, 54
Gypsum man, 159, 160
H
Haddon, A. C., recognizes Australoid in America, 218
Haeckel, Ernst, 81
Hand axes, 84, 85, 173;
as products of core industry, 70, 286;
development of, 68, 111;
in the New World, 173-76, 183, 287;
spread of use of, 72
Harrington, John, on diversity of Indian speech, 6
Harrington, M. R., discoveries of, 159;
on forebears of Eskimo, 223;
on migration through Ireland, 25
Haua Fteah, importance of finds at, 96
Heidelberg man, 80;
taurodontism in, 77
Heizer, Robert F., discoveries of, 136, 160;
on Monument skulls, 135
Henri-Martin, Mlle., 80
Hester, Jim, on extinction of mammals, 205
Hibben, Frank C., and Generalized Folsom points, 156;
discoveries of, 164;
on crossing into New World, 20;
redates Durst Silts, 163
Holmes, W. H., 31;
attacks early man, 124, 174;
on King’s pestle, 178
Holocene. See Postglacial Period
Homo sapiens. See Man
Hooton, Earnest A., 31, 32, 97;
on length of residence of man in New World, 132-33;
on origins of early man in New World, 219-20, 222-23;
quoted, 207, 233;
recognizes Australoid in America, 218;
on resemblance of American Indian to Old World peoples, 209, 222-23, 233, 241-42;
on spurious finds, 125-26
Housebuilding, earliest evidence in New World of, 171
Howard, Edgar B., discoveries of, 149-50;
on customs of Folsom man, 152-53, 280;
on length of residence of man in New World, 6;
on preservation of mammals, 198
Howells, W. W., quoted, 1;
sees similarity between American and Pacific tribes, 222
Howorth, Henry H., on extinction of mammals in New World, 201
Hrdlička, Aleš, attacks on traces of early man by, 124-28, 134;
on Aurignacian and Magdalenian ancestry in American Indian, 218;
on Calaveras skull, 123;
on crossing into New World, 18, 20;
on Indian culture, 240-41;
on migration routes, 21
Huntington, Ellsworth, on migration across Atlantic, 25
I
Ice ages, xii, 9, 18, 19;
Alpine glaciations in, 47, 48;
changes in sea level in, 50-53;
classification of, 44, 45;
extent of Wisconsin glaciation in, 18, 24, 26, 60;
hypothesis of land bridge in, 17, 18, 289;
hypothesis on causes of glaciation in, 53-60;
mammals in Americas in, 190;
migration in, 288-92;
and migration routes, 21-25, 60;
overlapping of centers in, 49;
Sangamon Interglacial period in, 24;
wood in, 35
Imbelloni, José, on advent of Pygmies in New World, 225-26
Indian race, autochthonous origin of, 233-34;
as descendants of Welsh, 16;
as inventor of own culture, 261;
myth of, 207, 279
Insects, in man’s diet, 41
International Congress of Americanists, 257
J
Java man. See Pithecanthropus erectus
Jefferson, Thomas, excavates Virginia mound, 120;
and fossils of extinct mammals, 191;
on origin of Eskimo, 286
Jenks, A. E., 132;
discoveries of, 154, 157;
on Sauk Valley skull, 133
Johnson, Frederick, traces migration routes, 21
K
Kay, G. F., on Minnesota man, 132
Keith, Sir Arthur, 31, 94;
on Lagoa Santa craniums, 130;
recognizes Australoid in America, 218
King, C. J., discoveries of, 178-79
Kingsborough, Lord, 129;
believes Indians to be Lost Tribes, 15
Koch, A. C., 120-21;
discoveries of, 154
Kroeber, Alfred L., on cultural diffusion, 244-45;
on number of languages, 5
L
Lagenaria gourd, 258
Lagoa Santa caves, 121, 127, 130-32, 135, 142
Larkin, Frederick, on Indian domestication of mammoth, 194
Leakey, L. S. B., and discovery of Zinjanthropus, 86;
on paleolithic pottery sherds, 38
Leechman, Douglas, traces migration routes, 21
Leighton, M. M., on finds at Elm Creek Silts, 162-63;
on length of residence of man in New World, 31;
on Minnesota man, 132
Lemert, Edwin M., discoveries of, 160
Lewis, Gilbert N., on neolithic culture in Andes, 256
Libby, Willard F., xi;
and dating through radiocarbon, 95, 96, 165, 179, 278
Lubbock, Sir John, on division of paleolithic and neolithic ages, 36
Lund, P. W., 121;
discoveries of, 130
Lyell, Sir Charles, 121;
on late survival of mastodon in New World, 197
M
MacClintock, Paul, on Minnesota man, 132
MacNeish, Richard S., 266;
dates corn, 273
Magdalenian man, in ancestry of American Indian, 218, 285-86;
hypothetical migration of, 25;
in Old World, 107, 126
Man, “age” of, 43;
and his early diet, 40, 41;
-apes in Africa, 85-87;
Australoid, 214-15, 217-18;
Australoid or Negroid ancestry of, in New World, 31, 42, 210, 219-20, 223-24, 248-49, 279;
as descendants of Adam, 119-21;
dividing line between ape and, 85-87;
existence of glacial, 63, 64, 288-92;
giant ancestors of, 83, 84;
length of residence in New World of, 2-7, 9, 28, 31, 56, 112, 124-42, 180-88, 277, 288-92, 294;
location of sites in New World of, 184-88;
Mongoloid, 207-9, 213, 215-18, 220;
relationship of forms of, 97, 220, 279
Mandan Indians, thought to be descendants of Welsh, 16
Mangelsdorf, P. C., and cereal treasure, 268
Manos, defined, 177
Marston, A. F., discovery of Swanscombe skull by, 77
Martin, Paul S., on extinction of mammals, 205
Mastodon, American, 9
Mathematics, development of, 7
Mather, Cotton, on Dighton Rock carvings, 120;
on giants of Holy Writ, 191
McGee, W. J., 146
Meade, Grayson, E., discovers Plain view point, 156
Medicine, development of, 7
Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, 83
Melanesian people. See Oceanic Negrito
Melbourne skull, 133-34
Mendel glaciation, 47
Mendes Correâ, A. A., and hypothesis of southern land bridge, 224
Mercati, Michele, on origin of ancient artifacts, 143
Mesolithic Age, 36, 37
Mexico, prehistory of, 29, 30
Microliths, in division of prehistory, 36
Midland man, 139-40
Migration of north pole, 56, 57
Migration routes, 2, 3, 16, 17, 166;
across Atlantic, 25;
across Pacific, 25;
by Antarctica, 25;
by Bering Strait, 20, 21, 24, 128;
early opinions on, 12-15;
from Europe to Canada, 25;
by Isthmus of Panama, 24
Milling stones, 166-70;
puzzle anthropologists, 280-81
Milnes Milnesand points, 162
Minnesota man, 132-33, 278;
challenge existence of, 140
Moir, J. Reid, 173;
discovery of eoliths by, 67, 68
Monkey trial, 124
Monument Site, significance of discoveries at, 135
Morlot, Adolphe, and glacial hypothesis, 47
Mortillet, Gabriel de, classification of cultures by, 64, 65, 68, 87, 88;
modification of theory of, 72
Mounds, number in U.S. of, 7
Mousterian. See Neanderthal
Mu, continent of, 16, 240
Mugharet-el-Kebara, 96
Muscovy duck, 8
N
Nachahmer, Emil, quoted, 143
Neanderthal man, 88-94, 96;
advent of, 79, 94;
as inventor of religion, 88;
predecessor of, 80
Negro slaves, thought to identify fossils of extinct mammals, 191-92
Nelson, N. C., 120;
on advent of Aurignacians, 100;
on ancestors of American Indian, 285;
on divisions of prehistory, 37;
on European attitude toward Indians, 12;
on Indian types, 209
Neolithic age, daggers from, 154;
defined, 36-39, 41, 42;
time taken to reach, 8
New Stone Age. See Neolithic age
Niagara Gorge, 49
Nordenskiöld, Baron Erland, on Indian culture, 240, 245, 247;
on inventions unique to New World, 261-62, 264;
on metallurgy in New World, 31, 32
Notharctus, 2
O
Oceanic Negrito, 213
Old Stone Age. See Paleolithic age
Oreopithecus bambolii, 87
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, on advent of Aurignacians, 100;
on extinction of mammals, 202
P
Painting, 104, 171;
as religious art, 258-59;
by Magdalenians, 107-12, 256;
in Spain, 112-13
Paleolithic age, 96;
defined, 36, 37, 41, 42, 116-17;
progress from, 7, 8;
sculpture of, 98
Panpipes, 235-36, 253
Papuan peoples. See Oceanic Negrito
Paranthropus, 85
Peking man, 81-85
Penck, Albrecht, and Alpine glaciations, 47;
on duration of glaciation, 55;
on inter-glacial migration, 290-92;
on length of residence of man in New World, 6, 31
Peñón man, 138
Percussion flaking, 88, 90, 91
Pericú skulls, 135, 221
Perry, W. J., 16, 239-40
Peyroni, D., 173
Piltdown forgery, 74-77
Pithecanthropus erectus, 82, 89;
cousin of, 84;
discovery of, 81
Pithecanthropus robustus, 89
Plainview points, 155-56, 203. See also Folsom man, Generalized
Playfair, John, and glacial hypothesis, 46
Pleistocene. See Great Ice Age
Plesianthropus, 85
Pliocene Period, 67, 68, 87
Pluvials, 59, 131, 170, 292-94;
defined, 52
Polished ax, social use of, 39
Population of New World in 1492, 5
Postglacial Period, definition of, 45
Pottery, in association with animal fossils, 194-95;
Aurignacian, 113;
cord-marked, 229;
in dating, 247;
as factor in neolithic life, 38;
invention in New World of, 54
Pressure flaking, 93, 280;
by Solutreans, 104, 283
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 64, 67
Protestant dogma, 122, 124;
influence on archeology of, 63
Punin man, 131-33;
question of antiquity of, 195;
resemblance to Australian skulls of, 218
Putnam, F. W., 124
Putnam, General Rufus, 120
Pygmy, as exception to Negroid headshape, 210;
as preceding Australoid in New World, 225-27