Record details

• Physical Description: 97 pages : illustrations maps ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Salt Lake City, Society for American Archaeology, 1953.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Supplement to American antiquity, volume xviii, number 3, part 2, January 1953."

"The papers presented here were among those given at a ... symposium on 'prehistoric and historic Asia: transpacific contacts with the New World' offered by Section H (Anthropology) at the 118th meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, December 27-30, 1951."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. 90-97.

Formatted Contents Note:

Some problems of Asiatic archaeology : an introduction / Lauriston Ward -- The archaeological evidence of cultivated wheat and barley in Near Eastern areas / Robert H. Dyson, Jr. -- An outline of Japan's prehistoric cultures / Bertram S. Kraus -- Problems related to delimiting the culture areas of Asia / Elizabeth E. Bacon -- Hypotheses on Inner Asian pastoral nomadism and its culture area / Richard K. Beardsley -- The current status of Aleutian archaeology / Albert C. Spaulding -- Recent developments in the Dorset culture area / Henry B. Collins -- A preliminary statement on the pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska / James B. Griffin -- The significance of recent archaeological discoveries in inland Alaska / Froelich Rainey -- The inland Tlingit / Catherine McClellan -- Problems in the relationship between Tlingit archaeology and ethnology / Frederica de Laguna -- Probabilities of genetic relationship in Northern Pacific moiety structures / Viola E. Garfield -- Plants across the Pacific / George F. Carter -- A possible focus of Asiatic influence in the late classic cultures of Mesoamerica / Gordon F. Ekholm.

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Asia > Relations > North America.
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