The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesAllen, Emory Adams
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The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
Allen, Emory Adams
Archaeology; Indians; Prehistoric peoples
(3) Force: “Some Considerations on the Mound Builders,” p. 64;
“Am. Antiquarian,” March, 1884, pp. 93-4; “10th Annual Report,
Peabody Museum,” p. 11.
(4) Short’s “North Americans of Antiquity”, p. 28.
(5) Squier and Davis’s “Ancient Monuments,” p. 105.
(6) Foster’s “Prehistoric Paces,” p. 148.
(7) Squier’s “Aboriginal Monuments of New York,” Smithsonia
Contribution No. 11, p. 83.
(8) Squier’s “Aboriginal Monuments of New York,” Smithsonia
Contribution No. 11, p. 87.
(9) Foster’s “Prehistoric Races,” p. 121.
(10) “They are numbered by millions.” Ibid.
(11) Prof. Forshey could frame no satisfactory hypothesis of
their origin. Ibid, p. 122.
(12) “Native Races,” Vol. IV, pp. 739 and 740.
(13) Smithsonian Rep., 1870, p. 406.
(14) Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition during the years
1838-42, Vol. IV, p. 334.
(15) Prof. Gibbs in Frank Leslie’s Monthly, August, 1883.
(16) “Ancient Monuments,” p. 139.
(17) Jones’s “Explorations in Tennessee,” p. 15.
(18) “Ancient Monuments,” p. 143. Explorers for Bureau of
Ethnology so report it in the South. Prof. Putnam, who has
certainly had great experience, says he has always found the
layers to be horizontal.
(19) “Sixteenth Annual Report Peabody Museum,” p, 171. An
ornament shaped to resemble the head of a wood-pecker, made of
gold, derived from some Spanish source, was found in a mound in
Florida. This particular mound must have been erected after the
discovery of America. (“Smithsonian Report,” 1877, p. 298, _et
seq._)
(20) “Sixteenth and Seventeenth Report Peabody Museum.” These
ornaments were made of hammered iron. This is the first time
that native iron has been found in the mounds. (Putnam.)
(21) “Prehistoric Races,” p. 178.
(22) J. E. Stevens’s Paper, read before the Muscatine Academy
of Science, Dec., 1878.
(23) That this was at any rate sometimes the case See “Ancient
Monuments,” p. 159.
(24) “Peabody Museum Reports,” Vol. II, p. 58.
(25) Jones’s “Explorations in Tennessee,” p. 15. See also
“First An. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology,” p. 198.
(26) “Ancient Monuments,” p. 169. See also note on same page
for another account of a larger number of skeletons.
(27) Short’s “North Americans of Antiquity,” App. A.
(28) James’s “Popular Science,” File 1883, p. 445.
(29) “Ancient Monuments,” p. 173.
(30) “Ancient Monuments,” p. 74.
(31) “Views of Louisiana.”
(32) This cut represents the mound as it probably was before
the outlines were destroyed by cultivation. It is based on a
model prepared by Dr. Patrick for the Peabody Museum.
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