The First Peopling of the New World

As a footnote to Ralph Beals’ most interesting discussion of Father Acosta's views on the peopling of the New World in the October 1957 issue of American Antiquity (Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 182–3), one might note the claim of Thomas Gage, author of the English-American, a new survey of the West Indi...

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Published in:American Antiquity
Main Author: Thompson, J. Eric S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1958
Subjects:
Museology
Archeology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
History
Bering Strait
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277482
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600021594
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Summary:As a footnote to Ralph Beals’ most interesting discussion of Father Acosta's views on the peopling of the New World in the October 1957 issue of American Antiquity (Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 182–3), one might note the claim of Thomas Gage, author of the English-American, a new survey of the West Indies , to be the first to develop thoroughly — certainly in English — the “Men out of Asia” via Bering Strait thesis.

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