Note 1606 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

H. H. Bancroft, Nat. Races, v. 129, 131, gives references on the autochthonous theory. It is held by Nadaillac, Les premiers hommes, ii. 117; Fred. von Hellwald in Smithsonian Rept., 1866; Bollaert’s “Contribution to an Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World” in Memoirs, Anthrop. Society of London, ii. 92; F. Müller, Allgemeine Ethnographie; and Simonin, L’homme Américain (Paris, 1870). F. W. Putnam (Report in Wheeler’s Survey, vii. p. 18) says: “The primitive race of America was as likely autochthonous and of Pliocene age as of Asiatic origin.” The autochthonous view is probably losing ground. Dall, in ch. 10, appended to the English translation of Nadaillac’s Prehistoric America, sums up the prevailing arguments against it. Cf. also Dabry de Thiersant’s Origine des Indiens du Nouveau Monde, ch. 1.