THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



SOUTHWEST PAVILION 



PREHISTORIC MEN OF NORTH AMERICA 



This hall, in the main, is given over to a systematic out- 

 line of the archaeology of North America ; the exhibit in the 

 Tower Room adjoining, to Old World archaeology. The 

 objects have been grouped according to areas and states. 

 Typical objects of ancient pottery, arrow-heads, stone axes 

 and other implements of stone and bone, most of which are 

 from burial mounds, are exhibited. The most important of 

 these are the rude implements and fragments of human 

 bones from the Trenton gravels, which form conclusive 

 evidence of the antiquity of man on this continent. The 

 cases on either side of the entrance to the Tower Room are 

 devoted to physical anthropology. 



In the Tower Room, adjoining, will be found many stone 

 implements and rude carvings from men of the Old Stone 

 Age of Egypt, Denmark and southwestern Europe. Upon 

 the walls are copies of paintings of bison, mammoths, 

 horses, wolves and reindeer from the caves of Altamira 

 and Font de Gaume in Spain and France respectively. It 

 is of interest to compare the crude stone implements of this 

 period with those finely worked objects of a similar nature 

 in the collections of our early Indians in the hall just vis- 

 ited. 



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