New World Origins
A Reappraisal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3211468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chester S Chard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 129 |
| Pages | 44-49 |
| Publication date | 1959-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00028982 |
| OpenAlex | W835606258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 2 |
It has been the general assumption that all the oldest New World cultures were direct importations from Asia-more specifically, from Siberia-and that the prototypes for their distinctive features must be sought in this latter area. A number of successive migrations by very different groups have been taken for granted to account for the varied archaeological picture in Palaeo-Indian times, to say nothing of the subsequent linguistic and physical diversity, but any contacts with the Old World on the Neo-Indian horizon have been generally viewed with suspicion. No specific evidence in support of this viewpoint has ever been adduced, it is true, but so long as Siberia remained a terra incognita, it was assumed that the proofs must be there, awaiting only the spade of the excavator. The proposition was argued, as it were, on the grounds of historical necessity
Archaeology · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Geography · Horizon · Nothing · Old World · Proposition · Sociology · Terra incognita · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Paleontology · Philosophy
The Relevance of Old World Archaeology to the First Entry of Man into New Worlds
The Archeology of Bering Strait
Early Man in America and the Late Pleistocene Chronology of Western Canada and Alaska
Context and Chronology of Early Man in the Americas
An Overview of Alaskan Late Pleistocene Archaeology
An Old World View of New World Prehistory
Models for Pleistocene Extinction
Drift Voyages Between Eastern Asia and the Americas
The Clovis Blades
Flake Tools in the American Arctic
An Outline of Early Man Studies in the United States
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1960 - 2001 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |