Update on Natchez Man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John L Cotter (0000-0003-1285-0937, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-39 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/280970 |
| OpenAlex | W2056074616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
On October 6, 1846, M. W. Dickeson, a physician from Natchez, Mississippi, exhibited a collection of specimens of mastodon and sloth fossil bones that he had found in 1845 at the base of a bayou cut through the loess above the Mississippi River near his home. He had brought them to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to which he donated them. Among the specimens was a fragment of human pelvis, implicitly also fossil, from a deposit of blue clay 61 cm below the animal fossils, which included mylodon (now Glossotherium harlani) and Megalonyx jeffersoni. After 144 years of controversy over the antiquity of 'Natchez Man,' a sample of the pelvis has been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry to 5580 ± 80 B.P
Archaeology · Geography · Loess · Sloth · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · History · Paleontology · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The First Americans
The Pleistocene—Holocene Transition in the Eastern United States
The Earliest South American Lifeways
Recent trends in the archaeology of the southeastern United States
Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States
The quest for an absolute chronology in human prehistory
New evidence for Late Pleistocene human exploitation of Jefferson's Ground Sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) from northern Ohio, USA
Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) Site, Texas
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2015 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |