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EEPORT OF Is^ATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



Holmes, W. H. — Continued. 



The relics of stone and clay col- 

 lected by Dr. AleS HrdliCka and Dr. 

 Bailey Willis, and numbering about 

 1,500 specimens, are classified and 

 described, and their technic, ethnic, 

 and chronologic place is carefully con- 

 sidered with the result that none of 

 the forms are found to present char- 

 acteristics which should distinguish 

 them from corresponding relics of the 

 historic aborigines of Argentina, and 

 that none should, without further 

 evidence than that so far available, be 

 attributed to geological antiquity. 



HrdliCka, Ales. Artificial deforma- 

 tions of the human skull. With espe- 

 cial reference to America. 



Adas del XVII Congress 

 Internacwnal de Ameri- 

 canistas. Sesion de Bue- 

 nos Aires, 1912, pp. 147, 

 148. 

 Abstract of a communication de- 

 livered at the above-named session. 

 Classifies in brief all artificial deforma- 

 tions of the skull; points to their 

 causes and effects, and touches upon 

 the distribution on the American con- 

 tinent of intentional deformation. 



Report on skeletal remains from a 



mound on Haley Place, near Red River, 

 Miller County, Arkansas. 



Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 Phila., 14, pp. 639-640, 1 



fig. 

 Describes a number of interesting 

 crania and other parts of the skeleton 

 recently donated to the National 

 Museum by Mr. Clarence B. Moore. 

 The skulls show artificial deformation 

 of the flathead variety. They may, 

 in part at least, represent a geographi- 

 cal extension of the Natchez people. 



Early man in South America. 



Bull. 62, Bur. Amer.Eth., 

 Aug. 30, 1912, pp. i-xv, 

 1-405, pis. 1-68, figs. 1-51. 

 This monograph, written in collab- 

 oration with W. H. Holmes, Bailey 

 Willis, Fred. Eugene Wright and 

 Clarence Nl Fenner, and representing 

 the results of two and a half years' 

 work, gives the facts, as far as they 

 could be ascertained, anthropological, 

 archeological, geological, and other- 

 wise, in regard to aU the finds relating 

 to early man in South America. It 

 is shown that the voluminous testi- 

 mony relied upon to establish the 

 presence of geologically ancient man 



Hrdlicka, Ale§ — Continued. 



on the southern continent does not 

 withstand searching criticism. The 

 excavations, with one or two excep- 

 tions, were made by untutored men, 

 who took no care to ascertain the ex- 

 act conditions, and in numerous in- 

 stances the specimens collected re- 

 mained for years unnoticed. The 

 burnt clays which were attributed to 

 human activities are shown to have 

 no necessary connection with man. 

 Stone implements regarded as exceed- 

 ingly primitive and ancient present 

 no real claims to antiquity. As to the 

 human skeletal remains, it appears 

 that partial mineralization of bones 

 has been given undue weight; and 

 that defective or artificially deformed 

 crania have been mistaken for nor- 

 mal and ancestral forms. On the 

 whole, the conclusion is inevitable 

 that thus far no specimen has been 

 found which could well be accepted 

 as representing any geologically an- 

 cient form of man in South America, 

 or any other race than the Indian. 

 The monograph ends with a complete 

 bibliography of the subject. 



Early man in America. 



Amer. Journ. Sci., 34, 

 Dec. 1912, pp. 543-554. 

 Relates to the history of man in 

 both Americas. It is shown that, 

 so far as skeletal parts are concerned, 

 no specimen has been found thus far 

 which could be accepted as satis- 

 factorily demonstrating the presence 

 of man dating back of the present 

 epoch, or representing any other type 

 than the Indian. 



Remains in eastern Asia of the 



race that peopled America. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 

 60, No. 16, Dec. 31, 1912, 

 pp. 1-5, pis. 1-3. 

 This paper gives in brief form the 

 main results of the writer's observa- 

 tions on his recent trip to Siberia and 

 Mongolia. The most important part 

 of these observations relates to the 

 finding, over extensive areas in east- 

 em Asia, of remnants of a type of 

 people who, in practically every 

 respect, are identical physically with 

 the American Indian. Besides the 

 physical, there were also noticed 

 many mental and ethnologic resem- 

 blances between the people met with 

 in this part of Asia and the American 

 aborigines. The paper points, finally, 

 to the great field for exploration offered 

 by eastern Asia. 



