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

By: Contributor(s): Series: Rice University semicentennial publications | Rice University semicentennial publicationsChicago, London : Published for William Marsh Rice University by the University of Chicago Press, 1964Description: x, 633 pages : illustrations, maps, tables ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226397394
  • 9780226397399
  • 0226397386
  • 9780226397382
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Prehistoric man in the New World.DDC classification:
  • 913.7082 Arm
LOC classification:
  • E61.W717
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.
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"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.'"

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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