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ArchµOlogy of the United States. or, Sketches, Historical and Bibliographical, of the Progress of information and Opinion Respecting Vestiges of Antiquity in the United States. by Samuel F. Haven.

ArchµOlogy of the United States. or, Sketches, Historical and Bibliographical, of the Progress of information and Opinion Respecting Vestiges of Antiquity in the United States. by Samuel F. Haven.


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... sphere, than upon any exceptional instances that may be detected.1 Thus while the question of foreign derivation may be left to stand or fall with that of the unity of the human species, the philological indications of extreme antiquity claimed for the American race as a variety of mankind will hardly be disputed. There is a curious circumstance which deserves to be mentioned before leaving this subject. It is that the European language which has been pointed out as most nearly resembling those of the American aborigines, in its employment of the principle of agglutination, is the Basque or Euskarian; and this is supposed to have been a language of the aborigines of Europe, who, by the irruption of the Celts and Indo-Germanic races from the East, were either exterminated or driven to inaccessible regions. Of these the Lapps and Finns, and the Euskarians of the Biscayan provinces, have been regarded by some writers as the remnant.2 The physical attributes of aboriginal Americans have furnished arguments in favor of the unity and antiquity of the race, subject to an equal want of harmony of sentiment in regard to matters of fact. As in what has been said of native languages the object has been to present the American view of the subject almost exclusively, for similar reasons the archaeological deductions of the physiologist will be examined chiefly from the same point of observation. The inquiry is not what opinions Buffon, Cuvier, Blumenbach, Prichard, Lawrence, Smith, and other writers on the natural history of man in general, have entertained concerning the origin and varieties of the human species--and reference to these must be brief and incidental--but the aim is to ascertain what impressions have been interwoven with ethnological studies and discussi...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781425571948
  • Publisher: University of Michigan Library
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1425571948
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2006
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 592
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 865 gr


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