Early Man in the New World
by Joseph A. Hester Kenneth Macgowan
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Book by MacGowan, Kenneth, Hester, Joseph A.
Chapters (147)(click to expand)
- EARLY MAN IN THE NEW WORLD
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND TABLES
- A NOTE ON NOTES
- 1 THIS SUDDEN NEW WORLD
- A Secret Laboratory of Culture
- Time-Tests by Travel, Tongues, and Physiques
- From the Old Stone Age to the New
- From Tools and Bones, Fossils and Rocks
- 2 THE ROAD OF EARLY MAN
- How New Was the New World?
- A Passage from Asia to North America
- Men Out of Asia—and All the Continents
- Bering Strait—Freeway to the New World
- Three Roads to the South—with One Detour
- Problematical Roads to the New World
- Ware Dogma!
- 3 THE DEAD HAND OF THE AGES
- Conflicts and Confusions
- The Problem of the Ages
- The Bronze Age—a Phantasm
- Wood, Bone, and Shell Ages
- Dividing the Stone Age—the Old and the New
- Activities of the New Stone Age
- Agriculture—Test of the Neolithic
- First a Food Gatherer, Then a Hunter
- 4 THE GREAT ICE AGE
- Our Part of the Geologic Time Scale
- The Glacial Hypothesis Appears
- The End of the Great Ice Age
- River Terraces and Beach Lines
- The Cause of Glaciation
- 5 EARLY MAN IN THE OLD WORLD
- Archaeology, a New Science
- Mortillet’s Cramping Classification
- Enter the Eolith
- Flake vs. Core Industries
- Dating Early Man in Europe
- True Tools—Deceptive Skulls
- Ancestors from Heidelberg and Swanscombe?
- Putting the Neanderthal in His Place
- Ancient Man in Java and China
- “Giant Ape”—a Mythical Ancestor?
- “Java” Men in Africa and Europe?
- Man-Apes or Ape-Men in Africa
- The Progressive Neanderthal
- Radiocarbon Dates for the Mousterian
- Homo sapiens—New or Old?
- Solutrean Flint Workers Invade Europe
- Weapons and Tools—from Hand Ax to Arrowhead
- The Danger in Universal Time-Scales
- 6 WHAT THE BONES HAVE TO SAY
- Early Man as Adam’s Progeny
- Science and Religion Embattled
- Reaction, Led by Science
- The Red Herring of the “Primitive Skull”
- The Mystery of the Missing Bones
- South America Provides the First Skulls
- North American Skulls and Bones
- Early Man Not Solely Mongoloid or Indian
- Evidence from Middle America
- New Finds in the United States
- 7 THE ARTIFACTS OF EARLY MAN IN THE NEW WORLD
- Artifacts from Heaven
- The Folsom Point—Unique and Potent
- Americans Hunted Animals Now Extinct
- Two Other Folsom Sites—Clovis and Lindenmeier
- Another Fine and Ancient Point
- The Plainview Point
- A New Point—and Sloths—in Gypsum Cave
- Old Lake and River Sites
- Sandia—Older Than Folsom
- The Milling Stone Appears
- A Paucity of Art Objects
- Hand Axes in the Americas
- Early Man in Mexico
- From the Glacial to the Archaic
- Back of 15,000 Years?
- THE MORE IMPORTANT SITES OF EARLY MAN
- 8 EARLY MAN AND THE GREAT EXTINCTION
- A Twofold Problem
- Myths and Mammoths
- Archaeological Evidence of Recent Man and the Mastodon
- Sloth and Camel in Dry Caves
- The Folsom Bison Not Extinct?
- The Mystery of Extinction
- More Radiocarbon Dates for Extinct Mammals
- 9 PYGMIES, AUSTRALOIDS, AND NEGROIDS—BEFORE INDIANS?
- The Mythical Indian Race
- Racial Definition—the Field of the Physical Anthropologist
- The Cephalic Index—and Others
- What Skull Measurements Tell Us About Early Man
- Europe Recognizes the Australoid in America
- Hooton and Dixon on Early Invaders
- A Potpourri of Races
- Pygmies Before Australoids in the New World?
- Australoids, Negroids, and Men from Europe
- No Mongoloids till 300 B.C.
- Siberian Caucasoids
- 10 DID THE INDIAN INVENT OR BORROW HIS CULTURE?
- Diffusion vs. Independent Invention
- Bastian’s “Psychic Unity”
- Complexity an Argument for Diffusion
- Dispersion as Well as Diffusion
- The Trap of Time
- Escape from the Trap
- Dead Alexander Invades America
- Independent Inventions Neither Parallel Nor Diffused
- What Diffusion of Plants and Art?
- 11 THE INDIAN IN AGRICULTURE
- Inventions—Some New, Some Old
- NEW WORLD PLANTS AND PRODUCTS
- American Plants and Their Cultivation
- When and Where Did Our Agriculture Begin?
- The Indian’s Accomplishment in Agriculture
- How Old Is Corn?
- 12 PUZZLES, PROBLEMS, AND HALF-ANSWERS
- The Pendulum Swings
- The Puzzle of the Skulls
- The Puzzle of the Querns
- The Puzzle of the Points
- Was Our Early Man a Solutrean?
- Or Was the American Aurignacian or Magdalenian?
- Chopping Tools Instead of Hand Axes in Asia
- Spinden’s Neolithic Blockade
- Was the First Migration Interglacial?
- Geological Evidence and the Pluvials
- In Sum
- REFERENCES IN THE TEXT
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- REFERENCES AS TO ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX
- THE NATURAL HISTORY LIBRARY
- EARLY MAN IN THE NEW WORLD
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