Dana’s _Am. Journal of Science,_ May, 1875.
See Lockwood, in _Popular Science Monthly_ for 1883, for account of beaver dam built on a mastodon skeleton and evidence of contemporaneity of Indians and mastodons.
“The Missouri was a stream thirty miles wide.”
For the facts on which this paragraph rests, see Report of Samuel Aughey, Ph.D., in “U.S. Survey of the Territories, for 1874,” p. 243, _et seq._
“Illinois Geological Reports,” Vol. III, p. 123.
Jones’s “Antiquities of the Southern Indians,” p. 293.
Jones’s “Antiquities of the Southern Indians,” p. 295.
Quoted by Abbott’s “Primitive Industry,” p. 3.
Peet’s “Archæology of Europe and America,” p. 11.
Short’s “North Americans of Antiquity,” p. 27.
Up to the present time (1884) Dr. Abbott has collected over 20,000 specimens of stone implements, and all his more recent “finds” but confirm the opinion he expressed as to their significance ten years ago. His collection is at the Peabody Museum of Archæology, at Cambridge, Mass. (See last Peabody Report.)
Seventeenth Report Peabody Museum, p. 354 and note.
“Studies in Science and Religion,” p. 324.
We believe that similar results will attend the careful exploration in other sections. As bearing on this subject, it is interesting to know that Paleolithic implements are reported from one locality in Mexico. Our information in regard to them is very slight. (Brit. Assoc. Reports, 1881; Pres. Address, Count De Saporte, _Popular Science Monthly,_ Sept., 1883.)
“Geographical and Geological Survey,” 1874, p. 254.
Abbott: “Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History,” Vol. XXII, p. 102.
U.S. survey West of the 100th Meridian,” Vol. VII, p. 12.
U.S. Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region,” Vol. I, p. 102, quoted from “Primitive Industry,” p. 519.
DeCosta’s “Precolumbian Discovery of America,” p. 69.
Brinton’s “Myths of the New World,” p. 23. Note.
Prof. DeHass’s “Paper” read before Am. Assoc., 1882.
See remarks of Prof. Boyd Dawkins quoted earlier.
Meaning of “Mound Builders”—Location of Mound Building tribes—All Mounds not the work of men—Altar Mounds—Objects found on the Altars—Altar Mounds possibly burial Mounds—Burial Mounds—Mounds not the only Cemeteries of these tribes—Terraced Mounds —Cahokia Mound—Historical notice of a group of Mounds—The Etowah group—Signal Mounds—Effigy Mounds—How they represented different animals—Explanation of the Effigy Mounds—Effigy Mounds in other localities—Inclosures of the Scioto Valley—At Newark, Ohio—At Marietta, Ohio—Graded Ways—Fortified Inclosures—Ft. Ancient, Ohio—Inclosures of Northern Ohio—Works of unknown import—Ancient Canals in Missouri—Implements and Weapons of Stone—Their knowledge of Copper—Ancient mining —Ornamental pipes—Their knowledge of pottery—Of Agriculture—Government and Religion—Hard to distinguish them from the Indians.