The Indians of Pecos Pueblo: a Study of their Skeletal Remains

Abstract

IT is not always sufficiently realised to what extent a study of the early history of man in the New World may throw light on the early history of man in the Old World. No doubt this arises from the fact that many anthropologists are content with the assumption that all the aboriginal inhabitants of America were from first to last Mongoloids. But “the theory of the originally and perpetually Mongoloid character of the American population is difficult to accept in view of the decidedly non-Mongoloid character of the stratigraphically early types”. This opinion, quoted from the last paragraph of Dr. Hooton's elaborate and carefully prepared monograph, indicates one of the central problems which are presented as a result of his ten years' study of the skeletal remains of the Indians of Pecos.

The Indians of Pecos Pueblo: a Study of their Skeletal Remains.

By Earnest Albert Hooton. Appendix on the Dentition by Habib J. Rihan Appendix on the Pelves by Edward Reynolds. Statistical and Laboratory Assistants: Ruth Otis Sawtell, Ethel Clark Yates, Pearl B. Hur witz (Papers of the Southwestern Expedition, No. 4.) (Published for the Department of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.) Pp. xxvii + 391 + 112 plates. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1930.) 56s. net.