Early Man in the New World

Chapter 8

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[1]Thomas Jefferson, _Notes on the State of Virginia_ (1801), 77.

[2]Mark Catesby, _The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas Islands_ (1743), vol. 2, appendix vii.

[3]Loren C. Eiseley, “Myth and Mammoth in Archaeology,” _American Antiquity_, 11:86 (1945).

[4]Wm. Duncan Strong, “North American Indian Traditions Suggesting a Knowledge of the Mammoth,” _American Anthropologist_ new ser. 36:81-88 (1934).

[5]Eiseley, _op. cit._, 87.

[6]Thomas Ashe, _Memoirs of Mammoth and Various Other Extraordinary and Stupendous Bones of Incognita, or Non-Descript Animals Found in the Vicinity of the Ohio, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Osage, and Red Rivers, &c. &c._ (1806), 41.

[7]Jefferson, _loc. cit._

[8]John Ranking, _Historical Researches on the Conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the Thirteenth Century, by the Mongols, Accompanied with Elephants_ (1823), 1-479. Johann R. Forster, _Observations Made During a Voyage Around the World_, etc. (1778), 316.

[9]Frederick Larkin, _Ancient Man in America_ (1880), 3, 141.

[10]Max Uhle, “Späte Mastodonten in Ecuador,” _Proceedings, 23rd International Congress of Americanists_ (1930), 247-258.

[11]Loren C. Eiseley, “The Mastodon and Early Man in America,” _Science_, 102:108-109 (1945).

[12]William B. Scott, _A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere_ (2nd ed., 1937), 260.

[13]Loren C. Eiseley, “Men, Mastodons, and Myths,” _Scientific Monthly_, 62:517-524 (1946).

[14]Charles Lyell, _Travels in North America_, 1:54 (1845).

[15]Eiseley, “The Mastodon, etc.,” 109-110.

[16]Edgar B. Howard, “The Emergence of a General Folsom Pattern,” _25th Anniversary Studies, Philadelphia Anthropological Society_ (1937), 1:114.

[17]Hans E. Fischel, “Folsom and Yuma Culture Finds,” _American Antiquity_, 4:241 (1939).

[18]Eiseley, “Did the Folsom Bison Survive in Canada?” _Scientific Monthly_, 56:468-472 (1943).

[19]S. N. Rhoads, “Notes on Living and Extinct Species of North American Bovidae,” _Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia_, 49:497 (1897). C. Gordon Hewitt, _The Conservation of the Wild-Life of Canada_ (1921), 124.

[20]Ernest Thompson Seton, _Lives of Game Animals_ (1927), vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 707.

[21]Eiseley, _op. cit._, 471.

[22]K. P. Schmidt, “Herpetological Evidence for a Post-Glacial Eastward Extension of the Steppe in North America,” _Ecology_, 19:398-399 (1938).

[23]Ernst Antevs, personal communication, 1946.

[24]H. H. Howorth, _The Mammoth and the Flood_ (1887), xviii.

[25]Eiseley, “The Fire-Drive and the Extinction of the Terminal Pleistocene Fauna,” _American Anthropologist_, new ser. 48:54-55 (1946).

[26]Carl Sauer, “A Geographic Sketch of Early Man in America,” _Geographical Review_, 34:543-554 (1944).

[27]Sauer, personal communication, 1946.

[28]Eiseley, _op. cit._, 56-58.

[29]Eiseley, “Archaeological Observations on the Problem of Post-Glacial Extinction,” _American Antiquity_, 8:214 (1943).

[30]Alfred S. Romer, “Pleistocene Vertebrates and Their Bearing on the Problem of Human Antiquity in North America,” in _The American Aborigines_, ed. D. Jenness (1933), 76-77.

[31]_Ibid._, 77. Edwin H. Colbert, “The Association of Man with Extinct Mammals in the Western Hemisphere,” _Proceedings, 8th American Scientific Congress_ (1942), 2:27.

[32]Frank Hibben, “Evidence of Early Man in Alaska,” _American Antiquity_, 8:255-257 (1943). Froelich G. Rainey, “Archaeological Investigations in Central Alaska,” _American Antiquity_, 5:299-308 (1940).

[33]Ernst Antevs, “Geologic-Climatic Dating in the West,” _American Antiquity_, 20:329 (1955).

[34]Paul S. Martin, “Pleistocene Ecology and Biography of North America,” _American Association for the Advancement of Science, Publication_ 51:405 (1958).

[35]Jim Hester, “Late Pleistocene Extinction and Radiocarbon Dating,” _American Antiquity_, 26:58-71 (1960).