F
Facial index, 211-12
Fertile crescent, 40
Figgins, J. D., discovers Folsom point, 144-46
Fire lenses, 183
Flint knapping, 282-83;
finest, 154;
steps in, 282-83
Flint, Richard F., on last glaciation, 19, 49, 60
Fluorine test, for fossils, 76
Folsom man, dating of, 28, 151-52, 181, 191, 199-201;
Generalized, 156;
pressure flaking in culture of, 104;
spear points of, 144-51, 153-55, 191, 198
Fontechevade man, discovery of, 80
Font Robert point, 100, 105;
appearance of, 107
Frere, John, discoveries of, 62
G
García, Fray Gregorio, on origins of Indians, 14, 15
Geikie, James, and glacial hypothesis, 47
Giddings, J. L., Palisades culture of, 188
_Gigantopithecus_, 83, 84
Glacial Period. _See_ Great Ice Age
Glaciation. _See_ Ice ages
Gladwin, Harold S., 49, 162;
on advent of Pygmies in New World, 225-26;
on cultural diffusion, 242-43, 246-49;
on independent invention of agriculture, 267;
on invasion of America by Alexander the Great, 249-55;
on various early migrations to New World, 227, 229-30, 247
Great Ice Age, definition of, 44, 45, 48, 60;
large mammals in, 84, 181, 204;
rainfall during, 294;
theory of flake vs. core tools in, 70.
_See also_ Ice ages
Grimaldi man, 102
Günz glaciation, Danubian glaciers before, 47;
determination of time of, 54
Gypsum man, 159, 160
H
Haddon, A. C., recognizes Australoid in America, 218
Haeckel, Ernst, 81
Hand axes, 84, 85, 173;
as products of core industry, 70, 286;
development of, 68, 111;
in the New World, 173-76, 183, 287;
spread of use of, 72
Harrington, John, on diversity of Indian speech, 6
Harrington, M. R., discoveries of, 159;
on forebears of Eskimo, 223;
on migration through Ireland, 25
Haua Fteah, importance of finds at, 96
Heidelberg man, 80;
taurodontism in, 77
Heizer, Robert F., discoveries of, 136, 160;
on Monument skulls, 135
Henri-Martin, Mlle., 80
Hester, Jim, on extinction of mammals, 205
Hibben, Frank C., and Generalized Folsom points, 156;
discoveries of, 164;
on crossing into New World, 20;
redates Durst Silts, 163
Holmes, W. H., 31;
attacks early man, 124, 174;
on King’s pestle, 178
Holocene. _See_ Postglacial Period
_Homo sapiens._ _See_ Man
Hooton, Earnest A., 31, 32, 97;
on length of residence of man in New World, 132-33;
on origins of early man in New World, 219-20, 222-23;
quoted, 207, 233;
recognizes Australoid in America, 218;
on resemblance of American Indian to Old World peoples, 209,
222-23, 233, 241-42;
on spurious finds, 125-26
Housebuilding, earliest evidence in New World of, 171
Howard, Edgar B., discoveries of, 149-50;
on customs of Folsom man, 152-53, 280;
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