Research Catalog

Title

Prehistoric man in the New World / [contributors: Pedro Armillas and others. Editors: Jesse D. Jennings and Edward Norbeck].

Publication

Chicago, London: Published for William Marsh Rice University by the University of Chicago Press 1964.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Armillas, Pedro.
• Jennings, Jesse D. (Jesse David), 1909-1997
• Norbeck, Edward, 1915-1991
• Rice University.

Description

x, 633 pages : illustrations, maps, tables; 24 cm

Summary

"Estimates of man's antiquity in the Americas vary from about 12,000 to as much as 30,000 to 40,000 years. Clear evidence indicates that he lived in North America as early as 12,000 years ago as a hunter of mammoths and bison. The highest development of American Indian culture followed much later in the civilizations based on agriculture of Mesoamerica and northern South America. Learning the complete record of man's life in the New World has been one of the goals of archeology, and recent research has greatly increased our knowledge of this subject. But the vastness of the area and the variations in the quality and quantity of the data found in different parts of the country make American prehistory as unwieldy a subject as it is fascinating. Archeologists in this field long ago became specialists in restricted geographical areas, and it grows increasingly difficult to gain an over-all view. Geologists and linguists, too, have contributed through research in their disciplines to the literature of American prehistory. The volume performs a unique service for professional archeologists and lay readers alike in bringing together in straightforward, non-technical language the principal findings of the most recent research as well as the accumulated results of many years' study."--

Series Statement

Rice University semicentennial publications

Uniform Title

Rice University semicentennial publications

Subject

• Indians > Antiquities
• Prehistoric peoples > America
• Antiquities
• Indians > Antiquities
• Prehistoric peoples
• Préhistoire > Amérique
• Antiquités préhistoriques > Amérique
• America > Antiquities
• America

Note

• "The papers ... are lengthier versions of addresses delivered at Rice University on November 9 and 10, 1962, in a symposium entitled 'Prehistoric Man in the New World.'"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Introduction / Jesse D. Jennings and Edward Norbeck -- Opening address -- Geoanthropology / Carey Croneis -- Earliest times -- Early man in the New World / Alex D. Krieger -- The north -- The Arctic and Subarctic / Henry B. Collins -- Western North America -- The western coast of North America / Robert F. Heizer -- The desert west / Jesse D. Jennings -- The greater Southwest / Erik K. Reed -- The Great Plains / Waldo R. Wedel -- Eastern North America -- The northeast woodlands area / James B. Griffin -- The southeastern United States / William H. Sears -- Mesoamerica -- Northern Mesoamerica / Pedro Armillas -- Southern Mesoamerica / Robert Wauchope -- South America -- The Caribbean area / Irving Rouse -- Lowland South America / Clifford Evans -- South American high cultures / Alfred Kidder II -- Special studies -- Transpacific contacts / Gordon F. Ekholm -- North and South American cultural connections and convergences / Betty J. Meggers -- Linguistic overview / Morris Swadesh -- Closing address -- Concluding remarks / Ignacio Bernal.

ISBN

• 0226397394
• 9780226397399
• 0226397386
• 9780226397382

LCCN

• 63018852
• x190991924

OCLC

• ocm00418286
• 418286
• SCSB-243516

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library