Early Man in South AmericaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 405 pages |
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AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN ancient andesine animals antiquity appears Argentina argillaceous material Arroyo atlas Bahia Blanca Barrancas del Norte beach Buenos Aires BULLETIN 52 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN Campo Peralta cave characteristics coast color coquina crania deformation deposits Diameter Diprothomo dunes earth Ensenadean eolian epoch erosion ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 52 evidence extinct femora femur flakes Fontezuelas fossil fragments frontal geologic glyptodon grains Homo pampaus Hrdlička human bones human remains Indian Inter-Ensenadean Lagoa Santa Lehmann-Nitsche locality loess magnetite Malacara Mar del Plata meters microscope mineral Miramar modern Monte Hermoso Necochea observed occur orbits original oxide pampas Pampean Pampean formation Pampean terrane pebbles plagioclase playas posterior present probably Professor Ameghino pyroxene quartz quartzite recent refractive index region Rio Negro rock Roth San Blas sand scoria skeleton skull species Specimen label stone supraorbital surface Tetraprothomo tierra cocida tion tosca Upper Pampean wind writer
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Page 368 - I then place the curve of a strabismus hook over the cornea, about the junction of the lower with the middle third of the lens, and a spoon just above the upper lip of the wound.
Page 182 - Rivet and many other authors, when the mass of present evidence is carefully considered can be admitted as true only to a certain rather limited extent. The fact is that the American stem or homotype is not homogeneous; it presents in different tribes and localities the extremes of head form and also numerous other pronounced differences. Yet, the living Indian, as well as his skeletal remains, are characterized throughout America, from Canada to the limits of Tierra del Fuego, by certain fundamental...
Page 382 - America there have been brought forth thus far tangible traces of either geologically ancient man himself or of any precursors of the human race. This should not be taken as a categorical denial of the existence of early man in South America, however improbable such a presence may now appear; but the position is maintained, and should be maintained, it seems, by all students, that the final acceptance of the evidence on this subject can not be justified until there shall have accumulated a mass of...
Page 374 - Holzner, a collector employed at my request by the United States National Museum and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Page 36 - ... discussed by Mr. Sanford. (See pp. 174-199.) Coquina. — One of the most common of the marine Quaternary deposits is coquina, a mass of more or less waterworn shells loosely cemented by calcium carbonate, which occurs in numerous places along the coast. The amount of cement is seldom great enough to close the openings between the individual shells, though in some localities the process of cementation has proceeded far enough to produce a rather compact fossiliferous limestone.
Page 382 - The conclusions of the writers with regard to the evidence thus far furnished are that it fails to establish the claim that in South . 21535°— Bull. 52—12 25 385 America there have been brought forth thus far tangible traces of either geologically ancient man himself or of any precursors of the human race.
Page 36 - Extensive beds of shell rock, of a peculiar character, occupy the borders of the ocean, in various places from the river St. Johns to Cape Florida. They are composed of unmineralized marine shells, of species common to our coast, mostly small bivalves, .whole and in minute division, connected by calcareous cement. I examined this rock on the isle of Anastasia opposite St. Augustine where it extends for miles, rising twenty feet above the sea and of unknown depth. It has been penetrated about thirty...
Page 197 - TRIAS. water-level; 2, is a thin layer of gravel as found in excavating on the right side of the stream, and which was material deposited by the stream which it had washed from more elevated portions of its bed; number 3 is a layer of vegetable mold 10 cm. in thickness, which contains numerous bones of domestic animals introduced into the country since its occupation by Europeans; number 4 is a stratum 40 cm. in...
Page xv - THE MAN OF THE PAMPEAN FORMATION. — The accompanying cut, for which, with the accompanying notes, we are indebted to Prof. Ameghino, of Mercedes, Buenos Ayres, exhibits a transverse section of the stream Frias, demonstrating the geological constitution of the strata at the point where the fossil man of Mercedes was found, together with a plan of the excavation made in exhuming the remains.
Page viii - ... especially as to the existence of very early predecessors of the Indian in South America; nor does it sustain the theories of the evolution of man in general or even that of an American race alone in the southern continent. The facts collected merely attest the presence of the already differentiated and relatively modern American Indian.