The Coming of Man from Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Hrdlička, Aleš (1869-1943)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution (offprint)

Pub Date: 1936

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (FL): Fair to Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name hand-written on upper front cover.   Sun-fading to front and rear spine edges.  Some edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (FL): Fair to Good.  Stapled binding tight.  Previous owner’s name hand-written and stamped on upper front cover.  Sun-fading to front and rear spine edges.  One small chip to front cover edge, above an approx. 1/2″ fold/bump.  Dropped?  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint from the Smithsonian Report for 1935, pages 463-470.  “Examination on the spot of the Bering Strait region shows plainly that, once man arrived in northeasternmost Asia, the passing over to the visible American side was not merely possible but inevitable….There could, therefore, never have been any large or continued migration into America, but only relatively small and interrupted dribblings over, but dribblings that went on over several millennia.” (pages 465-466)