Indians of the New World J. Grahame Clark, speaking of the
contributions made by the Indians of North and South America to
the Old World, has this to say: ("New World Origins," Antiquity,
14(54), June, 1940, 118) Baron Nordenskiold, unlike some
European theorizers, who found it difficult to credit the
aborigines with the ability to raise their own civilization
independently of the Old World inspiration, had spent many long
and arduous years in the field of South American archaeology,
and his conclusions carried with them outstanding authority. In
addition to many technical inventions he attributed to the
American Indian the achievement of domesticating the animal and
plant life of his habitat so effectively that during the four
centuries since the Discovery the White Man had failed to make a
single contribution of importance. The native fauna gave poor
scope, but from it he domesticated the llama, alpaca, guinea-
pig, and turkey. Of plants he domesticated hundreds... Matthew
Stirling, Chief of the American Bur