"A Human Skeleton from Sediments of Mid-Pinedale Age in Southeastern Washington"
Journal article, illustration
By: Roald Fryxell
Date: April 1968
Source: Fryxell, Roald, et al. "A Human Skeleton from Sediments of Mid-Pinedale Age in Southeastern Washington." American Antiquity 33, no. 4, 1968, 511–514.
About the Author: Roald Fryxell (1934–1974), the lead author of this article, was born in Moline, Illinois, and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Idaho in 1971. He joined the faculty of Washington State University in 1962, where he served as professor of anthropology until his untimely death in an automobile accident.
Introduction
Paleoanthropologists have long debated when humans arrived in the Americas. Since 1924, fossil and genetic evidence has supported British naturalist Charles Darwin's belief that humans and their ancestors originated in Africa. The earliest, the Australopithecines (bipeds with a...
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