. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Plate i Upper: Shore line eastward of Talta!, on the northern coast of Chile, seen from 1,800 feetelevation. Excavation in shell heaps along this coast revealed two early pre-agricultural occupa-tions prior to the coming of native farmers and metal workers. Lower: Expedition camp near Midden I, CROSS SECTIONS OF NEW WORLD PREHISTORY A BRIEF REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTE OFANDEAN RESEARCH, 1941-1942 By WM. DUNCAN STRONGProfessor of Anthropology, Columbia University (With 33 Plates) SCIENTIFIC AND HISTORIC BACKGROUND Since the first contact
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Plate i Upper: Shore line eastward of Talta!, on the northern coast of Chile, seen from 1,800 feetelevation. Excavation in shell heaps along this coast revealed two early pre-agricultural occupa-tions prior to the coming of native farmers and metal workers. Lower: Expedition camp near Midden I, CROSS SECTIONS OF NEW WORLD PREHISTORY A BRIEF REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTE OFANDEAN RESEARCH, 1941-1942 By WM. DUNCAN STRONGProfessor of Anthropology, Columbia University (With 33 Plates) SCIENTIFIC AND HISTORIC BACKGROUND Since the first contact between the white invaders and the aboriginalinhabitants of the western continents there has been a profoundinterest in the Indians of the Americas. Speculation as to the age andorigin of the native American civilizations, the nature and extent oftheir achievements, and their complex interrelations within and with-out the Western Hemisphere, has persisted to the present. Today,however, highly evolved excavation techniques, combined with exhaus-tive and exact historical research, have almost entirely replaced thearmchair brooding or treasure hunting of the past. From this pains-takingly developed scientific approach there has resulted a new kindof international history that is intercontinental in its scope. The most brilliant and advan
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