Author: LOVEN, SVEN
Title: Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies with Nineteen Plates and One Map
Description: Goteborg, Sweden: Elanders, 1935. 1st Thus. Softcover. Some wear to the heavy paper covers, some fading. As is the habit of of some publishers of scholarly works, the edges of the pages have not been trimmed leaving closed edges top and fore edge and may need to be opened by a professional to prevent tearing. ; A tight solid book. Numerous B&W plates have been bound in at the back of the book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 696 pages; "The book is virtually a requisite for all research in the field of Antillean archaeology. Apparently every work with any bearing upon the subject, especially the oldest historical sources, has been digested, and the footnote references are multitudinous. Each cultural element, tangible archaeological object or trait, is treated exhaustively; its resemblances and possible connections traced throughout the Americas; and conclusions as to its point of origin, development and migration reached." --J. Alden Mason of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, in American Anthropologist. Sven Loven was a Swedish anthropologist. The book first appeared in German in 1924. This an updated edition translated into English. Very Good .
Keywords: tainan ANTHROPOLOGY West Indies West Indies
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Title: Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies with Nineteen Plates and One Map
Description: Goteborg, Sweden: Elanders, 1935. 1st Thus. Softcover. Some wear to the heavy paper covers, some fading. As is the habit of of some publishers of scholarly works, the edges of the pages have not been trimmed leaving closed edges top and fore edge and may need to be opened by a professional to prevent tearing. ; A tight solid book. Numerous B&W plates have been bound in at the back of the book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 696 pages; "The book is virtually a requisite for all research in the field of Antillean archaeology. Apparently every work with any bearing upon the subject, especially the oldest historical sources, has been digested, and the footnote references are multitudinous. Each cultural element, tangible archaeological object or trait, is treated exhaustively; its resemblances and possible connections traced throughout the Americas; and conclusions as to its point of origin, development and migration reached." --J. Alden Mason of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, in American Anthropologist. Sven Loven was a Swedish anthropologist. The book first appeared in German in 1924. This an updated edition translated into English. Very Good .
Keywords: tainan ANTHROPOLOGY West Indies West Indies
Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 20239
- Book number: 20239
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