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
D
Dart, Raymond, 86;
and Broom discover southern apes, 85
Dasypodidae. _See_ Extinct armadillo
Dating, of early man by death of mammals, 189-205, 294;
through pluvial periods, 52, 63;
through pottery, 247;
through radiocarbon, xi, 9, 86, 94-97, 100, 102, 138, 140, 179,
188, 204, 278;
from sloth dung, 160;
of Turin skeletons, 140
Dawn stones. _See_ Eoliths
Diaz (del Castillo), Bernal, on principle of wheel in New World, 30;
on Mexican mammoth bone, 136
Dixon, Roland B., criticizes Rivet’s languages hypothesis, 255;
on cultural diffusion, 243-44;
on origins of early man in New World, 220-22;
on transpacific migration, 30, 218
Douglas, A. E., originates tree-ring count, 49
Dubois, Eugène, 85;
discovers Java man, 81, 82
E
Eden culture, name change of, xii;
points of, 154, 158, 203;
pressure flaking in, 104, 181
Eiseley, Loren C., on Athabasca bison, 200;
on extinction of American mammals, 192-93, 195, 202-3;
questions evidence of historic mastodon, 197
Ekholm, Gordon, on Asia-America diffusion, 258
Engravings, on bone, 172-73
Eoliths, development of tools from, 67, 163;
origin of, 67, 68
Eskimo, 6, 220, 279;
Caspian strain in, 221
Eustatism, 59
Evans, Glen L., discovers Plainview point, 156
Ewing, Maurice, on cause of glaciation, 56, 57
Extinct armadillo, 190
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