Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-cnmwb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T08:39:51.042Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Additional Evidence of Scalping1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Charles E. Snow
Charles E. Snow*
Affiliation:
Alabama Museum, W.P.A.Birmingham, Alabama
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Interest in the evidence of early scalping in aboriginal America was stimulated by Georg K. Neumann in an article which appeared in American Antiquity. Since then, another specimen coming from prehistoric Middle Mississippi horizons a t Mound State Monument, has been described.

It came to my attention, quite accidentally, that a specimen from the Earth Mound Ruins, Nebraska, described by HrdliCka, presents such a markedly similar appearance to that found at Moundville, that a comparison of the two is in order.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , April 1942 , pp. 398 - 400
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Works Projects Administration of Alabama for assistance in the preparation of this note.

References

2 Neumann, Georg K., “Evidence for the Antiquity of Scalping from Central Illinois,” American Antiquity, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1940, pp. 287–289 Google Scholar.

3 Charles E. Snow, “Possible Evidence of Scalping at Moundville,” Part II, Museum Paper 15, Geological Survey of Alabama. In Press.

4 Gilder, Robert F., “Excavation of Earth Lodge Ruins in Eastern Nebraska,” with a “Report on the Skeletal Remains” by Aleš Hrdlička. American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1909, pp. 56–84 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Ibid., pp. 82–83.