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

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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, 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 headshap 60

Trepanning, defined, 7

Tule Springs, discoveries at, 182

U

Uhle, Max, excavates Quito find, 194-95

Uranium, in dating, 139-40

V

Vaillant, George C., xii;

dates sites of Indian culture, 247

Varves, 132;

defined, 49

Vavilov, N. I., on temperate origins of agriculture, 266

Vespucci, Amerigo, 11

VicuÑa, 8

Voltaire, on origin of man in New World, 15

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