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Jour. Anth. Inst.
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Historical SummaryMoreover there is no evidence that Egyptian influence in any form reached America either directly across the Atlantic or indirectly from Asia through Polynesian voyagers or drifters. No single cultural trait has been found indicating early Egyptian migration to America—no single grain of rice or wheat carried to America, and no grain of maize, no tobacco seed, no syphilis carried back to Europe before Columbus.2
If the dissemination took place in either of the ways which seem physically possible, then either the original group and its immediate descendants or the successive bands of colonists, must have stayed long enough here and there along the way to have left remains which should show not degenerate or crude copies of the traits, which their barbarous imitators might be expected to achieve, but full, clear examples of their Egyptian heritage. Somewhere in all this vast area one ought to find a real mastaba tomb, a pylon, a lotus capital, a typical hieroglyphic inscription, a single glass bead, or bit of characteristic jewelry. Yet nowhere has anything whatever of Egyptian type or origin been found.3
2Maudslay, A.R., n/an/an/an/a"Some American Problems," , 42: 12.
3 Dixon, op. cit., 255 (Charles Scribner’s Sons. By permission).
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Chicago: "Jour. Anth. Inst.," Jour. Anth. Inst. in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed December 6, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=V1G615D2HAEK8NC.
MLA: . "Jour. Anth. Inst." Jour. Anth. Inst., Vol. 42, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 6 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=V1G615D2HAEK8NC.
Harvard: , 'Jour. Anth. Inst.' in Jour. Anth. Inst.. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 6 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=V1G615D2HAEK8NC.
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