The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, Vol. 1: A Consideration of the Paleoliths of Kansas, Illustrated by 20 Figures and 19 Half-Tone Plates (

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Excerpt from The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, Vol. 1: A Consideration of the Paleoliths of Kansas, Illustrated by 20 Figures and 19 Half-Tone Plates One of the mostinteresting, as well as the most im portant, questions that concern man is that of his antiquity. In America, as in Europe, for many years it has been much discussed, but in America archeolo gists are not in as good concord on the fundamental ideas as in Europe. The leading American authorities are about where the European were prior to the dis coveries of Boucher de Perthes. That is about the same as saying that in America authoritative archeo logical opinion on this subject is about sixty-six years behind that of Europe. It is true that human artifacts in the river gravel at Trenton, New Jersey, were an nounced in 1872 by Dr. C. C. Abbott, who is the Boucher de Perthes of America, and have been de scribed elsewhere, but to this day all discoveries of pre-glacial human remains, whether bones or imple ments, have been discredited and discarded by the powerful in¿uences that are localized at Washington, and the existence of man in North America earlier than the Glacial epoch, i. E. The Wisconsin ice-epoch, is tabooed. The effect of this leading has been so pro nounced that in most of the museums of the country, outside of New England, it is vain to search for any labels that indicate pre-glacial man in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.