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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines, by Samuel George Morton 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.net Title: Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines Author: Samuel George Morton Release Date: June 24, 2009 [EBook #29215] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OBSERVATIONS ON AMERICAN ABORIGINES *** Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) Transcriber's Note A number of typographical errors have been maintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at the end of the text. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. BY SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, M. D., Author of the Crania Americana, Crania AEygptiaca, &c. EXTRACTED FROM THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, VOL. II, SECOND SERIES. NEW HAVEN: PRINTED BY B. L. HAMLEN, Printer to Yale College. 1846. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. Nothing in the progress of human knowledge is more remarkable than the recent discoveries in American archaeology, whether we regard them as monuments of art or as contributions to science. The names of Stephens and Norman will ever stand preeminent for their extraordinary revelations in Mexico and Yucatan; which, added to those previously made by Del Rio, Humboldt, Waldeck and D'Orbigny in these and other parts of our continent, have thrown a bright, yet almost bewildering light, on the former condition of the western world. Cities have been explored, replete with columns, bas-reliefs, tombs and temples; the works of a comparatively civilized people, who were surrounded by barbarous yet affiliated tribes. Of the builders we know little besides what we gather from their monuments, which remain to astonish the mind and stimulate research. They te
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