Archiv für Anthropologie, Volumes 35-36

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F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1909

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Pagina 150 - The town and the house of the Cacique Ossachile are like those of the other caciques in Florida. . . . The Indians try to place their villages on elevated sites ; but inasmuch as in Florida there are not many sites of this kind where they can conveniently build, they erect elevations themselves in the following manner : They select the spot and carry there a quantity of earth which they form into a kind of platform two or three pikes in height, the summit of which is large enough to give room for...
Pagina 150 - ... were observed by the explorers ; and an excavation of the tumuli at this point has apparently confirmed the statement of the chronicler, as in the upper strata articles of European manufacture were found, while in the lower strata no indication of contact with the whites was observed. Garcilasso says the Indians try to place their villages on elevated sites, but, inasmuch as in Florida there are not many sites of this kind, they erect elevations for this purpose, on some of which fifteen or twenty...
Pagina 279 - Besiedelung Grönlands, die eines Tages ausgelöscht war, fast ohne eine Spur zu lassen. So waren die Niederlassungen in Vinland und Markland ausgelöscht. So sind selbst germanische Staaten und germanische Völker in Südeuropa und Nordafrika verschwunden.
Pagina 158 - And in the town was great store of old maize, and great quantity of new in the fields. Within a league and half a league were great towns all walled. Where the Governor was lodged was a great lake, that came near unto the wall; and it entered into a ditch, that went round about the town, wanting but a little to environ it around. From the lake to the great river was made a wear by which the fish came into it ; which the cacique kept for his recreation and sport.
Pagina 302 - Tentyriticum regionum nominibus, in quibus nascuntur. superior pars Aegypti in Arabiam vergens gignit fruticem, quem aliqui gossypion vocant, plures xylon et ideo lina inde facta xylina. parvus est similemque barbatae nucis ю fructum defert, cuius ex interiore bombyce lanugo netur.
Pagina 158 - of others which afterwards we saw, was of great posts thrust deep into the ground, and very rough; and many long rails, as big as one's arm, laid across between them, and the wall was about the height of a lance, and it was daubed within and without with clay, and had loopholes.
Pagina 293 - Archiv für Anthropologie. Zeitschrift für Naturgeschichte und Urgeschichte des Menschen. Organ der deutschen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte. Begründet von A. Ecker und L. Lindenschmit. Unter Mitwirkung von A.
Pagina 173 - Voyage de Découvertes, a l'Océan Pacifique du Nord, et autour du Monde, dans lequel la côte Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique et été soigneusement reconnue et exactement relevée.
Pagina 33 - ... nicht mehr ermöglicht, ja bisweilen gänzlich verschwunden ist, was auf eine jahrhundertelange Kultur schließen läßt. Hinter dem Hause trennt nur ein schmaler Streifen gerodeten Landes, bisweilen auch eine Mandioca-, Mais- oder Zuckerrohrpflanzung die menschliche Wohnstätte von dem ewigen Urwalde. Die Bewohner einer solchen Maloka gehören meistens im weiteren Sinne einer Familie an ; häufig ist es nur ein älteres Paar mit seinen erwachsenen Söhnen und ihren Familien. Da aber die Frau...

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