Observations on Cup-Shaped and Other Lapidarian Sculptures in the Old World and in America-On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets-A Study of the Manuscript Troano

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Their (cupstones) occurrence in different countries make distribution a basis for drawing inferences bearing on the important question of the migration of man in long-past ages." -Charles Rau, Preface, Observations on Cup-shaped Lapidarian Sculptures in the Old World and in America (1881) Observations on Cup-Shaped and Other Lapidarian Sculptures in the Old World and in America: On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets-A Study of the Manuscript Troano (1881) is the fifth volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). This volume is organized into three parts: Part I: Observations on Cup-Shaped and Other Lapidarian Sculptures by Charles Rau, Part II: On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets by Robert Fletcher, and Part III: A Study of the Manuscript Troano by Cyrus Thomas. It offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of the history of mankind.