Record details

• Physical Description: 600 pages, 17 pages of plates : illustrations, maps (1 folded), portrait ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1940.

Content descriptions

General Note:

--Native cultures of the intermontane (Great Basin) area, by J.H. Steward.--Southern peripheral Athapaskawan origins, divisions, and migrations, by J.P. Harrington.--Outline of Eskimo prehistory, by H.B. Collins, Jr.--Bibliography of anthropological papers by John R. Swanton, compiled by Francis S. Nichols (p. 593-600).

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

The work of John R. Swanton, by A.L. Kroeber. -- Introduction, by J.H. Steward. -- Some historical implications of physical anthropology in North America, by T.D. Stewart. -- Developments in the problem of the North American paleo-Indian, by F.H.H. Roberts, Jr. -- The historic method as applied to southeastern archeology, by M.W. Stirling. -- Virginia before Jamestown, by D.I. Bushnell, Jr. -- Problems arising from the historic northeastern position of the Iroquois, by W.N. Fenton. -- Archeological perspectives in the northern Mississippi valley, by F.M. Setzler. -- Culture sequences in the central great plains, by W.R. Wedel. -- From history to prehistory in the northern great plains, by W.D. Strong. -- Some Navaho culture changes during two centuries (with a translation of the early eighteenth century Rabal manuscript), by W.W. Hill. -- Progress in the Southwest, by N.M. Judd.

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Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958.
North America > Antiquities.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.

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