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The Project Gutenberg EBook of On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data, by J. W. Powell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (pages 73-86)) Author: J. W. Powell Release Date: July 19, 2006 [EBook #18869] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK USE OF SOME ANTHROPOLOGIC DATA *** Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR. * * * * * ON LIMITATIONS TO THE USE OF SOME ANTHROPOLOGIC DATA. BY J. W. POWELL. ON LIMITATIONS TO THE USE OF SOME ANTHROPOLOGIC DATA. BY J. W. POWELL. * * * * * ARCHAEOLOGY. Investigations in this department are of great interest, and have attracted to the field a host of workers; but a general review of the mass of published matter exhibits the fact that the uses to which the material has been put have not always been wise. In the monuments of antiquity found throughout North America, in camp and village sites, graves, mounds, ruins, and scattered works of art, the origin and development of art in savage and barbaric life may be satisfactorily studied. Incidentally, too, hints of customs may be discovered, but outside of this, the discoveries made have often been illegitimately used, especially for the purpose of connecting the tribes of North America with peoples or so-called races of antiquity in other portions of the world. A brief review of some conclusions that must be accepted in the present status of the science will exhibit the futility of these attempts. It is now an established fact that man was widely scattered over the earth at least as early as the beginning of the quaternary period, and, perhaps, in pliocene time. If we accept the conclusion that there is but one species of man, as species are now defined by
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