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Crania from Wyoming Resembling “Minnesota Man”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

W. W. Howells
W. W. Howells*
Affiliation:
American Museum of Natural History, New York City
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In the summer of 1935, a road gang working in the vicinity of Torrington, Wyoming, near the north bank of the North Platte River, was blasting for road material in the face of a low bluff. Among the debris of one explosion they found several broken skeletons, together with a few stone artifacts and some bone beads. The artifacts were dispersed among the workmen, but the skeletal material, together with a few of the beads, came into the hands of Dr. S. H. Knight, Professor of Geology at the University of Wyoming. On a trip to New York he brought the cranial fragments to the American Museum of Natural History, where they were restored by the author.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , April 1938 , pp. 318 - 326
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1938

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References

284 Jenks, A. E., Pleistocene Man in Minnesota, A fossil Homo sapiens (with a chapter on the Pleistocene geology of the Prairie Lake region, by George A. Theil), 197 pp., Minneapolis, 1936. The author wishes to thank Professor Jenks for providing him with photographs of the Minnesota skull, and for permission to reproduce them in the plates which accompany this paper.

285 That of an adolescent girl, about fifteen years of age.

286 Hrdlička, A., The Minnesota “Man.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 175–200, 1937.

287 Hrdlička, op. Cit., p. 193.

288 Oetteking, B., Craniology of the North Pacific Coast, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 15, Part 1, Leiden, 1930.

289 Hooton, E. A., The Indians of Pecos Pueblo, A study of their skeletal remains, Papers of the Phillips Academy Southwestern Expedition, No. 4, 391 pp., New Haven, 1930.

290 Hooton, op. cit.

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292 Jenks, op. cit., Figure 51.

293 Figgins, J. D., New World Man. Proceedings of the Colorado Museum of Natural History, Vol. 14, No. 1, 5 pp., 1935; Roberts, F. H. H., Jr., New World Man. American Antiquity, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 172–177, 1937.