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The Skulls from Torrington, Wyoming: A Re-evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George A. Agogino  and
Eugene Galloway
George A. Agogino
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Eugene Galloway
Affiliation:
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
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Abstract

The Torrington skeletal material owes its suspected antiquity to its osteologic similarity to Minnesota Man. A recent study of the Torrington remains, based on laboratory analysis and grave artifacts, indicates that these burials are of late prehistoric age. These results reveal the danger of using morphological comparison, without supporting evidence, to establish chronological relationships.

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American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 106 - 109
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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