Skeletal remains suggesting or attributed to early man in North America / by Aleš Hrdlička.

  • Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Skeletal remains suggesting or attributed to early man in North America / by Aleš Hrdlička. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIONS Page Plate I. The Calaveras (California) skull as it was in 1902 . 22 II. Skulls from Illinois. 30 III. Skull from Burlington county, New Jersey. 37 IV. Skull from Riverview cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey. 37 V. The Lansing (Kansas) skull. 49 VI. Skulls from Florida. 57 VII. The North Osprey (Florida) femur and tibia. 59 VIII. The South Osprey (Florida) skeleton. 59 IX. Osseous remains in process of silicification, found at South Osprey, Florida. 64 X. Skulls from Gilder mound. 80 XI. Skulls from Gilder mound. 80 XII. Skulls with low foreheads (Davenport Academy of Sciences). 95 XIII. Mound-builder skulls (Davenport Academy of Sciences). 95 XIV. Skull from mound in North Dakota (U. S. National Museum no. 228876).’. 99 XV. Skull of Piegan from Montana (U. S. National Museum no. 243673)- 99 XVI. Skull from mound near Browning, Schuyler county, Illinois (U. S. National Museum no. 136778). 99 XVII. Skulls with low foreheads, from Illinois and Nevada. 99 XVIII. Skulls with low foreheads, from California. 99 XIX. Skull from Santa Cruz island, California (U. S. National Museum no. 241927). 99 XX. Skulls with low foreheads, from California and Wisconsin. 99 XXI. Skull from mound in Orange county, Indiana (U. S. National Mu¬ seum no. 243855). 99 Fig. 1. Geological formations concerned in human history. 9 2. The Natchez pelvic bone (after Leidy). 18 3. Cave skull, Calaveras county, California; side view.... 26 4. Remnant of the skull of the “Hombre del Penon” (after Barcena, in La Naturaleza, vn, no. 16). 34 5. Front view of two of the Bremen cliamsecephals. 44 6. Side and top views of one of the Bremen chamsecephals. . 45 7. Comparison of the nasion-opisthion arcs, geometrically constructed, of the Lansing skull and three modern Indian crania. 53 8. Sketch map of Osprey and vicinity. 54 9. Section of deposits showing position of the Osprey skull. 61 10. Shore line at South Osprey -. 62 11. Section of the. layers at the locality of the South Osprey find. 63 12. Antero-posterior arcs of skulls no. 8 and no. 6... 79 13. Antero-posterior arcs of skulls no. 4402, Davenport Academy of Sciences, and no. 6, Gilder mound. 94 14. Antero-posterior arcs of skulls no. 4402, Davenport Academy of Sciences, and no. 8, Gilder mound.. 94 15. Antero-posterior arcs of skulls no. 242982, U. S. National Museum, and no. 6, Gilder mound. 95 16. Antero-posterior arcs of skulls no. 242982, U. S. National Museum, and no. 8, Gilder mound. 05 tr I