The First Americans (Peopling Of The Americas)

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Another View of Kensington Rune Sone

Source: Anderson, Rasmus Björn. Another view of Kensington rune stone. (Menasha, Wis, 1920)
Reprinted from the Wisconsin Magazine of Hstory, Vol. III, No. 4, June 1920​

 

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An African Art Object in Apparently Early Archaeological Context in El Salvador
Overview:
In 1967 Boggs was shown a carved bone artifact which had allegedly been encountered under almost six feet of undisturbed soil near the town of Colon in El Salvador. Interested because the artifact little resembled Amerindian handiwork, he brought it with him to the United States where the material was tentatively identified at Harvard University as a hippopotamus tusk. But he had no time for further investigation. He brought the artifact with him to Mérida when Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Stirling were also visiting the Andrews. We all decided it merited further investigation. The Stirlings took it back to Washington, D. C, to try to check out its date and place of manufacture. Boogs undertook to investigate further its archaeological provenience. The results seem worthwhile recordin

Source: Andrews, E. W., & Boggs, S. H. (1967). An African art object in apparently early archaeological context in el Salvador: A caveat to the Diffusionist. Ethnos, 32(1-4), 18–25.​

 

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Chinese Jades in America
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Exhibition of a collection of archaeological jade objects from various parts of the world. It showed objects from Nicaragua and Costa Rica carved in a type of jadeite from China.

Source: Putnam, Frederick W. Ornaments of Jade, American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, Vol.IV, April 1887, pp.62-63​

 

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Chinese Jade in America
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Mr. Frederick W. Putnam makes a report of jade objects which have a double interest. Twelve specimens are reported from Nicaragua and Costa Rica, ten of which were ornaments made by cutting celts into halves, quarters, or thirds, a portion of the cutting edge of the celt remaining on each piece. The method of sawing the objects is indicated. The first query, therefore, is, For what reason should a celt of such hard material be cut up and perforated?

Source: Chinese Jade in America, American Naturalist, Vol.XXI, 1887, pp.96-97​

 

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The Mexican Messiah, Quetzalcoatl
Overview:
There are few more puzzling characters to be found in the pages of history than Quetzatcoatl, the wandering stranger whom the early Mexicans adopted as the air -god of their mythology . That he was a real personage -that he was a white man from this side of the Atlantic, who lived and taught in Mexico centuries before Columbus was born- that what he taught was Christianity and Christian manners and morals-all these are plausible inferences from facts and circumstances so peculiar as to render other conclusion well - nigh impossible.

Source: Daly, Dominik. The Mexican Messiah, Quetzalcoatl, The Gentleman´s Magazine, Vol.XXLXV, September 1888, pp. 236-253​

 

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An Ancient South American, Maori and Indian Custom
Overview:
The suggestion has often been made that the Polynesians, in their extensive voyages about the Pacific which led them to all parts of that ocean, must have reached the shores of America. But so far the evidence is not complete, and yet there is no reason to doubt their powers of doing so. After what has been published in this Journal, descriptive of their daring on the sea, notably in the case of the Rarotongan voyager Tangiia, we are quite prepared to believe them capable of reaching the distant shores of the American Continent. To those who believe in this possibility the following will be of interest as a suggested point of contact in an old custom common to the ancient inhabitants of South America and to the Polynesians--at anyrate the custom shows an affinity to one practised by the Maori branch.

Source: An Ancient South American, Maori and Indian Custom, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 20, no. 1(77), 1911, pp. 15–16.​

 

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An Old-World Cubit in America (New Mexico)

Source: Anonymous, An Old-World Cubit in America, Nature, Nº2793, Vol.III, May 12, 1923, p.617

 

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Man and Elephant in Central America.
Overview:
While on a botanical expedition to Mexico in the summer and autumn of 1938, I paid a visit to Guadalajara, in the Department of Jalisco. Here I met a man (Señor Don Miguel Sanchez del Castillo) whose hobby it was to dig up the bones of elephants and men from the dried-up bottom of a neighbouring lagoon. The bones were all found a few inches below the surface, and the excavator believed them to be contemporary. I was unable to see the bones in situ as, at the time of my visit, the lagoon was full of water.​

Source: Gourlay, William Balfour. “Man and Elephant in Central America.” Man, vol. 40, June 1940, pp. 86–88.​

 

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Traditions of Precolumbian Landings on the Western Coast of South America
Overview:
The origin of the people inhabiting the New World the first problems that busied European minds as soon realized that America was an independent continent. man have reached this land, that was so widely separated rest of the known world? In reality this question one, for it had been asked in regard to every distant inhabited by animals and plants as well as by man. had been proposed long prior to the fifteenth century ories in harmony with the state of knowledge and ligious fervor of the period.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 – March 18, 1914) was a Swiss and American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America.

Source: Bandelier, Adolph F. “Traditions of Precolumbian Landings on the Western Coast of South America.” American Anthropologist, vol. 7, no. 2, 1905, pp. 250–70​

 

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Asiatic Survivals in (Northwest Coas) Indian Songs
Overview:
The Siberian origin of our northwestern natives can no longer be doubted. Abundant evidence, gathered for the National Museum of Canada in the last fifteen years, shows how the Athaspascan nomads, after they had crossed Bering into America, spread in various directions over a large part of our continent. Some of their roving bands, following game, journeyed south along the Rockies, or down the northwest coast, where salmon was plenti- ful. Many of them scattered over the vast swamps of the far north almost as far as Hudson Bay, while others ascended the Mackenzie into the grasslands of the prairies. Once they had discovered the buffalo, they vied in the hunt with the earlier prairie occupants, eventually displacing them with hammer- blows. For they were of the breed of the Tartars. They pene- trated as far south as Arizona, and were only prevented by the white man from invading Mexico, as the Mayas had done a millennium before

Charles Marius Barbeau, CC FRSC (March 5, 1883 – February 27, 1969), also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist

Source: Barbeau, Marius. “Asiatic Survivals in Indian Songs.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, 1934, pp. 107–16.​