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Early man, as depicted by leading authorities at the International Symposium, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, March 1937;

Title: Early man, as depicted by leading authorities at the International Symposium, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, March 1937; edited by George Grant MacCurdy ... introduction by John C. Merriam ... illustrated with 27 plates and 54 text cuts.
Author: International Symposium on Early Man (1937 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication: Philadelphia ; New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1937.

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362 pages : illustrations, plates, maps; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Introductory remarks / by John C. Merriam -- 2. A review of the stratigraphy of Java and its relations to early man / by G.H.R. von Koenigswald -- 3. The Near East as a gateway of prehistoric migration / by Dorothy A.E. Garrod -- 4. Mount Carmel man: his bearing on the ancestry of modern races / by Sir Arthur Keith and Theodore D. McCown -- 5. Late Palaeolithic man in northernmost Norway / by A.W. Brøgger -- 6. Pollen analysis as an aid in dating cultural deposits in the United States / by Paul B. Sears -- 7. Pleistocene land and fresh-water mollusca as indicators of time and ecological conditions / by Frank Collins Baker -- 8. Marine Pleistocene mollusks as indicators of time and ecological conditions / by Horace G. Richards -- 9. Certain relations between northwestern American and northeastern Asia / by Philip S. Smith -- 10. Early man in America: what have the bones to say? / by Aleš Hrdlička -- 11. First peopling of America as a chronological problem / by Herbert J. Spinden -- 12. Pleistocene glacial stratigraphy of North America / by Paul MacClintock -- 13. Climate and early man in North America / by Ernst Antevs -- 14. The significance of early cultures in Texas and southeastern Arizona / by Harold S. Gladwin -- 15. Geology of the Folsom deposits in New Mexico and Colorado / by Kirk Bryan -- 16. The Folsom problem in American archaeology / by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr. -- 17. The significance of profiles of weathering in stratigraphic archaeology / by M.M. Leighton -- 18. The Pleistocene mammals of North America and their relations to Eurasian forms / by Edwin H. Colbert -- 19. Pleistocene and post-glacial mammals of Nebraska / by Erwin H. Barbour and C. Bertrand Schultz -- 20. The Vero finds in the light of present knowledge / by E.H. Sellards -- 21. The Pleistocene of China, stratigraphy and correlations / by Père P. Teilhard de Chardin -- 22. Palaeolithic industries in China / by Pei Wen-chung -- 23. Adaptation to the postglacial forest of the north Eurasiatic Plain / by V. Gordon Childe -- 24. The evidence of the dentition on the origin of man / by William K. Gregory and Milo Hellman -- 25. The Siwaliks of India and early man / by Hellmut de Terra -- 26. The antiquity of man in the Pacific and the question of trans-Pacific migrations / by Daniel Sutherland Davidson -- 27. Domesticated plants in relation to the diffusion of culture / by E.D. Merrill -- 28. On Australopithecus and its affinities / by R. Broom -- 29. Eskimo cultures and their bearing upon the prehistoric cultures of North America and Eurasia / by Kaj Birket-Smithi -- 30. Origin and development of the early Palaeolithic cultures / by Oswald Menghin -- 31. Early man in Java and Pithecathropus erectus / by Eugène Dubois -- 32. Early man and geochronology / by Gerard De Geer -- 33. Some observations on the remains of a Pleistocene fauna and of the Palaeolithic Age in northern Manchuria / by A.S. Loukashkin -- 34. The Confins man: a contribution to the study of early man in South America / by H.V. Walter, A. Cathoud and Anibal Mattos -- 35. The place of Homo soloensis among fossil men / by W.F.F. Oppenoorth -- 36. On the Stone Age of Japan / by R. Torii.

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37035130

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ocm00926982
926982
SCSB-287082

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Princeton University Library