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    On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data
    On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data
    On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data
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    On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data - John Wesley Powell

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      Anthropologic Data, by J. W. Powell

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      Title: On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data

      (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (pages 73-86))

      Author: J. W. Powell

      Release Date: July 19, 2006 [EBook #18869]

      Language: English

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      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

      J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR.

      ON LIMITATIONS TO THE USE OF SOME ANTHROPOLOGIC DATA.

      ON LIMITATIONS TO THE USE

      OF SOME

      ANTHROPOLOGIC DATA.

      BY J.W. POWELL.

      ARCHÆOLOGY.

      Investigations in this department are of great interest, and have attracted to the field a host of workers; but a general review of the mass of published matter exhibits the fact that the uses to which the material has been put have not always been wise.

      In the monuments of antiquity found throughout North America, in camp and village sites, graves, mounds, ruins, and scattered works of art, the origin and development of art in savage and barbaric life may be satisfactorily studied. Incidentally, too, hints of customs may be discovered, but outside of this, the discoveries made have often been illegitimately used, especially for the purpose of connecting the tribes of North America with peoples or so-called races of antiquity in other portions of the world. A brief review of some conclusions that must be accepted in the present status of the science will exhibit the futility of these attempts.

      It is now an established fact that man was widely scattered over the earth at least as early as the beginning of the quaternary period, and, perhaps, in pliocene time.

      If we accept the conclusion that there is but one species of man, as species are now defined by biologists, we may reasonably conclude that the species has been dispersed from some common center, as the ability to successfully carry on the battle of life in all climes belongs only to a highly developed being; but this original home has not yet been ascertained with certainty, and when discovered, lines of migration therefrom cannot be mapped until the changes in the physical geography of the earth from that early time to the present have been discovered, and these must be settled upon purely geologic and paleontologic evidence. The migrations of mankind from that original home cannot be intelligently discussed until that home has been discovered, and, further, until the geology of the globe is so thoroughly

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