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The Antiquity of Man in the New World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
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The problem, or rather the series of related problems, which concerns the antiquity of man in the New World is complex and its ramifications involve many different phases of anthropology, as well as a large number of related sciences. I intend to deal only with those aspects of the general problem which have to do with the physical character of the earliest inhabitants of North and South America. In this fashion, any consideration of the antiquity of artifacts or other material which reveals the presence of man in early times will be excluded. For the rest, my consideration of these matters resolves itself into two parts: a discussion of the nature and probable antiquity of skulls and skeletons to which has been attributed some geological antiquity, and then a brief consideration of the related problem of presumed inter-racial differences in both the present and the past Indian population of the New World.
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Read at the Symposium on “Problems in Physical Anthropology” at the Thirty- Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in conjunction with the Society for American Archaeology, December, 1939.
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