Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Ales Hrdlicka

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ISBN 10 : 1331929962 ISBN 13 : 9781331929963

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Tin Bureau of American Ethnology from its foundation has taken a deep interest in all researches relating to the antiquity of man in A merica, and its attitude in considering the various questions that have arisen has leen conservative. In the earlier years of the investigation there existed a rather marked tendency on the part of students, and especially on the part of amateurs and the general public, hastily to accept any testimony that seemed to favor antiquity, and the conservative attitude of the Bureau was cmphasicd by a desire to counteract and correct this tendency. Kvidence of the great antiquity of man in the Old World is abundant and convincing, and the assumption that like conditions exist in America seemed reasonable and was perhaps justifiable, although it led to the general acceptance of much that was without satisfactory verification. It has leen the practice of the Bureau when discoveries lelieved to have an important lcaring on the question of human antiquity in North America havel een announced to seek to determine their just value. In pursuance of this plan its representatives have IMMMI sent on occasion to New Jersey, to the Ohio valley, to sites on the Potomac, to Minnesota, to California, to Florida, and to Kansas, to make the necessary investigations. On receipt of reports of the discovery in Nebraska of human crania of low tyjx1 and possibly of great geological antiquity, prompt action was taken. Doctor Hrdlicka. an accomplished student of human osseous remains, was sent to Lincoln to examine the H culiar remains and to make such investigations regarding the conditions under which they were discovered as he might find possible at that wason of the year. When this discovery was announced, the Bureau was alxtiit to send to press a paper by Doctor Hrdlicka embodying descriptions of all the known American human remains for which geologic
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331929962
• ISBN 13: 9781331929963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 167
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