Pre-historic Races of the United States of AmericaS. C. Griggs, 1874 - 415 Seiten |
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American Ancient Monuments animals antiquity Archæology arrow-heads artificial Bayou bones bronze builders burial Central America character charcoal chert civilization clay climate continent copper coronal suture crania Creek deposit described diameter earth enclosure Epoch European evidence excavation existence explored feet high feet in height figure flattened flint foramen magnum fragments frontal frontal bone frontal eminences grave Grave Creek Mound head Herodotus human hundred Illinois implements inches Indian indicate inferred Lake layer mastodon material ment Merom Mexico miles Mississippi Missouri mould Mound-builder's skull Mound-builders mounds Neanderthal nearly observed occur Ohio origin ornaments parietal peculiarity Perry County portion pottery pre-historic Professor pyramidal race region reindeer relics remains represented River seen shell-heaps shells side similar skeletons skull species specimens Squier and Davis stone structure superciliary ridges surface suture thick tibiæ tion traced trees tribes tumuli Valley walls Wisconsin zygomatic arches
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Seite 311 - Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. ' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside — The journey hence is long ! ' And let the knife new sharpened be That on the battle-day Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman's scalp away ! ' The paints that warriors love to use, Place here within his hand, That he may shine with...
Seite 391 - Gaul, from the great towers and temples, and other edifices of lime and stone which seemed to rise out of the water.
Seite 300 - He was never known voluntarily to engage in an enterprise requiring methodical labor ; he dwells in temporary and movable habitations ; he follows the game in their migrations ; he imposes the drudgery of life upon his squaw ; he takes no heed for the future. To suppose that such a race threw up the strong lines of circumvallation and the symmetrical mounds which crown so many of our river-terraces, is as preposterous, almost, as to suppose that they built the pyramids of Egypt.
Seite 182 - Jupiter, which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament. They likewise offer to the sun and moon, to the earth, to fire, to water, and to the winds. These are the only gods whose worship has come down to them from ancient times.
Seite 262 - I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to promote their happiness by the gods who dwell beneath the water. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper wrapped with their most precious articles.
Seite 311 - And many a barbarous form is seen To chide the man that lingers there. By midnight moons, o'er moistening dews, In vestments for the chase arrayed, The hunter still the deer pursues — The hunter and the deer a shade.
Seite 364 - Whilst we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men.* There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others — but none in themselves nobler than others. All are in like degree designed for freedom...
Seite 315 - In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and laying hold of the scalp shakes the skull out ; then with the rib of an ox he scrapes the scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin.
Seite 53 - In 1857, Dr CF Winslow sent to the Boston Natural History Society, the fragment of a human cranium found in the "pay-dirt" in connection with the bones of the mastodon and elephant, one hundred and eighty feet below the surface of Table Mountain, California. Dr Winslow has described to me all the particulars in reference to this
Seite 65 - ... which was covered by twenty feet in thickness of alternate layers of sand, clay, and gravel, one of the arrow-heads lay underneath the thigh-bone of the skeleton, the bone actually resting in contact upon it; so that it could not have been brought thither after the deposit of the bone...