The American aborigines, their origin and antiquity : a collection of papers by ten authors / assembled and edited by Diamond Jenness ; published for presentation at the Fifth Pacific Science Congress, Canada, 1933.

Contributor(s): Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969
Publisher: [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, 1933.Description: 396 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Contents: Quaternary geology of North America in relation to the migration of man / by W.A. Johnston -- Pleistocene vertebrates and their bearing on the problem of human antiquity in North America / by A.S. Romer -- The antiquity of man in America in the light of archaeology / by N.C. Nelson -- Racial types in America and their relations to Old World types / by E.A. Hooton -- Ethnological diversity in America and its significance / by Clark Wissler -- Origin of civilizations in Central America and Mexico / by H.J. Spinden -- Origin of the Indian civilizations in South America / by Erland Nordenskiöld -- Contacts with America across the Southern Pacific / by R.B. Dixon -- Relationships between North-west America and North-east Asia / by Franz Boas -- The problem of the Eskimo / by Diamond Jenness.
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Bibliography: p. 307-311.

Contents: Quaternary geology of North America in relation to the migration of man / by W.A. Johnston -- Pleistocene vertebrates and their bearing on the problem of human antiquity in North America / by A.S. Romer -- The antiquity of man in America in the light of archaeology / by N.C. Nelson -- Racial types in America and their relations to Old World types / by E.A. Hooton -- Ethnological diversity in America and its significance / by Clark Wissler -- Origin of civilizations in Central America and Mexico / by H.J. Spinden -- Origin of the Indian civilizations in South America / by Erland Nordenskiöld -- Contacts with America across the Southern Pacific / by R.B. Dixon -- Relationships between North-west America and North-east Asia / by Franz Boas -- The problem of the Eskimo / by Diamond Jenness.

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