The North Americans of Antiquity: Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization consideredShort, John T. (John Thomas)
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The North Americans of Antiquity: Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization considered
Short, John T. (John Thomas)
Indians -- Origin; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Antiquities
We have already called attention to the extensive and thorough
work performed by Professor Joseph Jones in Tennessee, the report
of which was published in 1876 by the Smithsonian Institution in a
“contribution” entitled _Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of
Tennessee_. Professor Jones secured above a hundred mound and stone
grave crania, mostly in the valley of the Cumberland and on the banks
of the Big Harpeth River. Some of the skeletons accompanying these
crania were of gigantic stature, a fact which is at variance with
the opinion that they were related to the diminutive race of Inca
Peruvians.[243] On the contrary, however, a strong argument for the
relationship between the Mound-builders and the Peruvians is found in
the frequent occurrence of the Inca-bone (_os inca_) so-called, on the
mound crania.[244] Mr. Henry Gillman found this same bone in one of the
crania exhumed by him from the great mound of Rouge River, Michigan,
with a disposition to its formation in several others.[245] Professor
Jones is convinced of the unity of the mound race throughout the entire
Mississippi Basin. The following table of measurements, published in
the _Antiquities of Tennessee_, is one of the most valuable which has
yet been prepared:
Key:
A. _Number of Cranium._
B. _Facial Angle in Degrees._
C. _Internal Capacity in Cubic Inches._
D. _Longitudinal Diameter in Inches._
E. _Parietal Diameter._
F. _Frontal Diameter._
G. _Vertical Diameter._
H. _Inter-Mastoid Arch._
I. _Inter-Mastoid Line._
J. _Occipito-Frontal Arch._
K. _Horizontal Periphery._
L. _Diameter of Head and Face._
M. _Zygomatic Diameter._
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