Great Paleolithic War电子书

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Roster of Individuals

CHAPTER ONE A Study in Controversy

1.1 Beginning and ending

1.2 A powerful lens

1.3 Approaching the inquiry

1.4 The data of history

1.5 The scope and structure of controversy

CHAPTER TWO Setting the Stage

2.1 Establishing the parameters

2.2 Bringing the Paleolithic to America

2.3 Rude Americans?

2.4 Looking anew

2.5 Where to next?

CHAPTER THREE Establishing the American Paleolithic, 1872–1881

3.1 Charles Abbott builds the foundation

3.2 Frederic Ward Putnam comes aboard

3.3 Firming up the structure

3.4 The Trenton paleoliths go public

3.5 Subdividing the glacial epoch

3.6 Abbott’s Primitive Industry

3.7 The sound of the applause

3.8 The creed of George Frederick Wright

3.9 Seeking his just reward

CHAPTER FOUR The American Paleolithic Comes of Age, 1882–1889

4.1 The Paleolithic comes in quartz

4.2 Lest Trenton be forgotten

4.3 The American Paleolithic comes together

4.4 Abbott takes center stage

4.5 Pushing the antiquity envelope

4.6 Thomas Chamberlin and the question of glacial history

4.7 The Kettle Moraine moves east

4.8 Mapping the Pennsylvania moraine

4.9 An uneasy association

4.10 Hard times for the USGS

4.11 Wrangling over the glacial boundary

4.12 Synthesis and antithesis

4.13 Wright’s Ice Age in North America

4.14 The bandwagon rolls

4.15 Looking to the future of the past

CHAPTER FIVE The Great Paleolithic War, 1890–1897

5.1 The Bureau of Ethnology takes the field

5.2 William Henry Holmes and the lessons of Piney Branch

5.3 Abbott returns fire

5.4 The gathering storm

5.5 The preliminary skirmish

5.6 The Great Paleolithic War

5.7 The “Betinseled Charlatan” affair

5.8 Mounting a defense

5.9 Collateral damage

5.10 Holmes’s march through the American Paleolithic

5.11 Point/counterpoint

5.12 On the unity or diversity of the glacial period

5.13 Showdown in Madison

5.14 Interregnum

5.15 Returning to the field of battle

5.16 An end and a beginning

CHAPTER SIX Cro-Magnons in Kansas, Neanderthals in Nebraska, 1899–1914

6.1 Human skeletal remains emerge from the Trenton Gravel

6.2 Aleš Hrdlička

6.3 The Trenton femur: A preliminary look

6.4 Hrdlička finds his method

6.5 Holmes gets his man

6.6 Cro-Magnons in Kansas?

6.7 On the origin and age of loess

6.8 Loess and the Lansing man

6.9 Remedial lessons

6.10 Dressed for battle, no one to fight

6.11 Neanderthals in Nebraska?

6.12 Hrdlička’s Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America

6.13 Over before it began

6.14 Lansing to Long’s Hill: Loess to dust

6.15 Trenton redux?

CHAPTER SEVEN Dangerous to the Cause of Science, 1915–1925

7.1 Oliver Hay offers a faunal solution

7.2 Men and mammoth at Vero

7.3 A nonharmonic convergence

7.4 Spinning the message

7.5 Turf wars

7.6 Finding Vero’s place on the human family tree

7.7 Violating the sacred confines

7.8 Eras’ ends

7.9 Dangerous to the cause of science

7.10 With friends like these

7.11 Speaking of old evidence

CHAPTER EIGHT In the Belly of the Beast, 1921–1928

8.1 Harold Cook and Jesse Figgins—willful revolutionaries

8.2 Anthropoid apes in America?

8.3 Another head of the Hydra

8.4 When it rains . . .

8.5 Bearding the lion

8.6 What’s in a name?

8.7 Mammoths and metates

8.8 Baiting the trap

8.9 From the lion’s den . . .

8.10 . . . to the belly of the beast

8.11 Seeking a new identity

8.12 Hedging bets

8.13 Will the rising tide lift all boats?

8.14 Whereas, Folsom

8.15 Coming apart at the (mu)seams

8.16 Once more, with feeling

8.17 Dead men walking

8.18 The sound of victory, the silence of defeat

CHAPTER NINE Fast Forward, 1930–1941

9.1 Lining up the shot

9.2 “Scattered around like a dog buries bones”

9.3 Still fighting the last war

9.4 Not just another old site

9.5 Refining the Pleistocene

9.6 Converging on a chronology

9.7 The peopling process

9.8 Recognizing variation and change

9.9 A Philadelphia story

9.10 What have the bones to say?

9.11 Profiling

9.12 Finding the time

9.13 Fast forward

CHAPTER TEN Controversy and Its Resolution

10.1 The medium is not the message

10.2 Challenging context

10.3 Ascertaining antiquity

10.4 Numbers going nowhere

10.5 Flattening the past

10.6 “Savaging” the present

10.7 Hrdlička’s lament

10.8 When disciplines collide

10.9 Last days of the tyro

10.10 All scientists are equal, but some are more equal than others

10.11 “Be sure to mention Kidder”

10.12 Victims of the Matthew Effect

10.13 Prehistory repeats itself

10.14 Living in an old New World

10.15 Controversy and its resolution

Appendix: Whatever became of . . . ?

Notes

Bibliography

A. Manuscript sources

B. Printed sources: Primary

C. Printed sources: Secondary

Acknowledgments

Index