Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

Chapter 1
1. Edwin Hamilton Davis and George Ephraim Squier, Ancient Monuments
of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the Results of Extensive Original
Surveys and Explorations (Smithsonian Institution, 1848).
2. Bradley T. Lepper and Tod A. Frolking, “Alligator Mound:
Geoarchaeological and Iconographical Interpretations of a Late
Prehistoric Effigy Mound in Central Ohio, USA,” Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 13, no. 2 (2003): 147–167,
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774303000106.
3. Bradley T. Lepper, “Archaeology: Serpent Mound Might Depict a
Creation Story,” Last modified: February 11, 2018,
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20180211/archaeology-serpent-moundmight-depict-creation-story;
William H. Holmes, “A Sketch of the Great
Serpent Mound,” Science 8, no. 204 (1886): 624–628; Robert V. Fletcher,
Terry L. Cameron, Bradley T. Lepper, et al., “Serpent Mound: A Fort
Ancient Icon?” Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (1996): 105–143.
4. References for this section: Jason Colavito, The Mound Builder Myth:
Fake History and the Hunt for a “Lost White Race” (University of
Oklahoma Press, 2020); Kenneth L. Feder, Frauds, Myths, and
Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, 10th ed. (Oxford
University Press, 2020); David H. Thomas, Skull Wars: Kennewick Man,
Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity (Basic Books,
2000).
5. Brook Wilensky-Lanford, “The Serpent Lesson: Adam and Eve at Home
in Ohio,” The Common, last modified: March 1, 2011,
https://www.thecommononline.org/the-serpent-lesson-adam-and-eve-athome-in-ohio.
6. Thomas, Skull Wars.
7. José de Acosta, Historia Natural y Moral de Las Indias[…] (Seville,
1590).
8. This and other details about Jefferson’s response to de Buffon can be
found in Lee Dugatkin’s excellent book Mr. Jefferson and the Giant
Moose: Natural History in Early America (University of Chicago Press,
2009).
9. Thomas, Skull Wars.