Monday, January 21, 2019

Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies


Lovén, Sven, Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies, Goeteborg: Elanders, 1935.

Reviewed in Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana.

"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.

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