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Recent Work on Early Man at the Gruta De Cadonga in the Argentine Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Kirk Bryan
Kirk Bryan*
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Geological Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Numerous finds of human skeletons and artifacts in Argentina, all buried in soft deposits, have led to a large literature and to controversies over the antiquity of man. Investigations of these finds by Hrdlicta and the geologic work of his companion, Bailey Willis, proved: (1) that all the skeletons are those of Homo sapiens; (2) that many occur close to the surface in material subject to recent slumping and wind action; (3) that the stratigraphy of the Pampean series is not so distinctive that horizons determined by vertebrate fossils may always be recognized at localities where the fossils are absent; (4) that none of the finds involve stone cultures sufficiently distinctive from those of the modern Indians to demand recognition as being ancient.

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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , July 1945 , pp. 58 - 60
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1945

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References

1 Hrdlička, Ales et al., Early Man in South America, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 52, 1912 Google Scholar.

2 Simpson, G. G., “Mammal-Bearing Tertiary of South America,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 83, pp. 649–709, 1940 Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., p. 698.

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5 Alfredo Castellanos, Antiqüedad geólogica del yacimiento de los restos humanos de la Gruta de Cadonga (Córdoba), Publ. Inst, de Fisiographía y Geol., Univ. Nac. de Litoral, No. 14,1943 .

6 Ibid., pp. 19–25.

7 Op. cit.

8 In Hrdlička et al., op. cit.

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10 It is obvious from Simpson's discussion that the term Tehuelche is used in many senses. Others might dispute Caldenius’ use of the term, but the high gravels to which he refers have long been recognized

11 Op. cit., pp. 5–6.

12 Kirk Bryan, “Correlation of the Deposits of Sandia Cave, New Mexico, with the Glacial Chronology,” appendix to F. C. Hibben, “Evidences of Early Occupation in Sandia Cave,” Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 99, No. 23, pp. 45–65,1941.

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14 Op. cit.

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