Asia and North America
Subtitle: transpacific contacts
By: Assembled by Marian W. Smith for the Society for American Archaeology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Contributors: Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961
Series: Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology -- no. 9; Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology -- no. 9.
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Relations
Other titles: American antiquity. Supplement.
Notes: "Supplement to American antiquity, volume xviii, number 3, part 2, January 1953."

"The papers presented here were among those given at a ... symposium on 'prehistoric and historic Asia: transpacific contacts with the New World' offered by Section H (Anthropology) at the 118th meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, December 27-30, 1951."

Bibliography: p. 90-97.
Table of contents: title: Some problems of Asiatic archaeology : an introduction / Lauriston Ward; title: The archaeological evidence of cultivated wheat and barley in Near Eastern areas / Robert H. Dyson, Jr.; title: An outline of Japan's prehistoric cultures / Bertram S. Kraus; title: Problems related to delimiting the culture areas of Asia / Elizabeth E. Bacon; title: Hypotheses on Inner Asian pastoral nomadism and its culture area / Richard K. Beardsley; title: The current status of Aleutian archaeology / Albert C. Spaulding; title: Recent developments in the Dorset culture area / Henry B. Collins; title: A preliminary statement on the pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska / James B. Griffin; title: The significance of recent archaeological discoveries in inland Alaska / Froelich Rainey; title: The inland Tlingit / Catherine McClellan; title: Problems in the relationship between Tlingit archaeology and ethnology / Frederica de Laguna; title: Probabilities of genetic relationship in Northern Pacific moiety structures / Viola E. Garfield; title: Plants across the Pacific / George F. Carter; title: A possible focus of Asiatic influence in the late classic cultures of Mesoamerica / Gordon F. Ekholm.