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The Locus of the Natchez Pelvis Find

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George I. Quimby
George I. Quimby*
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Chicago Natural History Museum Chicago, III
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Some time between 1837 and 1844 Dr. Montroville Wilson Dickeson found a fossil human pelvis and bones of extinct animals in the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi (Culen 1900: 113–5).

In 1846 Dickeson reported this find to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, stating in substance that the human bone was found at least 2 feet below 3 associated skeletons of Megalonyx in a “plateau of blue clay … that underlies the diluvial drift of Natchez“ (Dickeson 1846: 106–7).

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1956 , pp. 77 - 79
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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