. Bulletin. Ethnology. 40 BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BtTLL. 60 penetrating the xVrctic and passing into America without a well- assured food supply, without fire, without clothing, and witliout implements of the chase. Advocates of the Tertiary or early Quater- nary settlement of America may take exception to this view, since it is possible that climatic conditions were such in the later Pliocene, or possibly in certain interglacial epochs, that the far north was favorable to human occupation and that if geographical relations were favorable man may have spread to the ends of the earth. In.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 40 BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BtTLL. 60 penetrating the xVrctic and passing into America without a well- assured food supply, without fire, without clothing, and witliout implements of the chase. Advocates of the Tertiary or early Quater- nary settlement of America may take exception to this view, since it is possible that climatic conditions were such in the later Pliocene, or possibly in certain interglacial epochs, that the far north was favorable to human occupation and that if geographical relations were favorable man may have spread to the ends of the earth. In. Fig. 19. Stages of migration in the peopling of America from tropical Asia. reply it may be said that not only is the hypothesis of early general distribution under any conditions improbable in itself, but it is entirely without the support of evidence. Figure 19 will aid in conveying a notion of the problems of mi- gration under known post-Tertiary conditions from Effect of Migra- ^ q| ^ ^^ .^ ^ |j ^^ ^j^^ ^^^^^. Vorld bv WaV of tion on Culture _ . ^ the Arctic gateway, and in suggesting the cultural transfoi-mations which would accompany each step of the process. In each successive environment from ^i to O man would come under. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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