Author: ALES HRDLICKAPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
RECENT DISCOVERIES ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY MAN IN AMERICA
Author: ALES HRDLICKASkeletal Remains Suggesting Or Attributed to Early Man in North America
Author: Ales HrdlickaPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290366656
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Records of the Past
Author: The Rise and Fall of North American Indians
Author: William BrandonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1570984522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The most expansive one-volume history of the native peoples of North America ever published.
EARLY MAN IN SOUTH AMERICA
Author: ALES HRDLICKAThe Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
Book Description
Science
Author: John Michels (Journalist)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Author: Brian RegalPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351930958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The discovery in the 1920s of a huge cache of fossils in the Gobi Desert fuelled a mania for dinosaurs that continues to the present. But the original goal of the expedition was to search for the origins of man. Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935), director of the American Museum of Natural History, stood at the forefront of the debate over human evolution and the expedition aimed to prove his theory of human origins. Osborn rejected the idea of primate ancestry and constructed a non-Darwinian theory that the evolution of man was the long adventurous story of individuals and groups exerting personal will-power and inborn characteristics to achieve both biological and spiritual success. It is an idea that still echoes today. Study of Osborn’s thinking, however, has been obscured by the perception that racism influenced his theories. Brian Regal paints a different and more textured picture in this book - he shows that Osborn's views on race, like his political ideas, were motivated by his science, itself grounded in religious doctrine. His belief in the Central Asian origins of man, his role as an activist for eugenic reform and immigration controls, his support for Nordicism, his place in the 'New' versus 'Old' biology debate, his role in the Christian Fundamentalist controversy, the Scopes Monkey trial, and finally his construction of the 'Dawn Man' hypothesis - all stemmed from his desire to support his human evolution theory, and point the way to salvation. This biography charts Osborn's intellectual development, from its roots in the eclectic Christianity of his mother, through his student days with Arnold Guyot, James McCosh, and T.H. Huxley, to his mature work at the American Museum. It examines his trials and tribulations, friendships and conflicts, and the world in which he lived: all contributed to the construction of his theory. It is the dramatic story of a man holding onto ideas that for him represented the very meaning of life itself.
Southwestern Monuments: Monthly Report
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Lost World
Author: Tom KoppelPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439118000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering Strait and migrating south through an ice-free passage between two great glaciers blanketing the continent. But after years of sifting through data from diverse and surprising sources, the maverick scientists whose stories Lost World follows have found evidence to overthrow the "big-game hunter" scenario and reach a new and startling and controversial conclusion: The first people to arrive in North America did not come overland -- they came along the coast by water. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist Tom Koppel details these provocative discoveries as he accompanies the archaeologists, geologists, biologists, and paleontologists on their intensive search. Lost World takes readers under the sea, into caves, and out to the remote offshore islands of Alaska, British Columbia, and California to present detailed and growing evidence for ancient coastal migration. By accompanying the key scientists on their intensive investigations, Koppel brings to life the quest for that Holy Grail of New World prehistory: the first peopling of the Americas.