HOLMES] ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 17 



later stage duplicating the neolithic. This imfortiinate assumption 

 has cast a shadow over the whole American archeological field, not 

 as yet fully dissipated. That the parallel is not complete, how- 

 ever, is now generally recognized, and American antiquities of all 

 stages and types are being employed to develop the history of man 

 in America, whether or not in accord with OldWorld determinations. 

 A large number of explorers who have conducted original re- 

 searches in the field, contributing noteworthy data regarding an- 

 tiquities, are cited in the section of this work devoted to an outline 

 of the ethnic characterization areas of the continent.^ 



1 For extended lists of authors emhodyins in tlieir works valuable data relating to the 

 whole of the American field, consult Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America; 

 Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States ; Handbook of American Indians ; Ilrdlicka's 

 Early Man in South America. 



