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Loren Eiseley published roughly 200 articles, essays, and reviews in a wide range of publications, from narrow scientific journals designed for specialists to mass market magazines read by the general public. Some of these items were reprinted in his books, but most were not. Below is an ongoing compilation of those materials, with links to the JSTOR site or other location where they can be found, as well as a downloadable PDF, if available. These are arranged in chronological order by date of publication.
“Paleontological Evidence for the Antiquity of the Scottsbluff Bison Quarry and Its Associated Artifacts,” C. Bertrand Schultz, Loren Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2, Part 1 (Apr. – Jun., 1935).
“An Added Note on the Scottsbluff Quarry,” C. Bertrand Schultz, Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. – Sep., 1936).
“Significance of Hunting Territory Systems of the Algonkian in Social Theory,” Frank G. Speck and Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1939.
“Evidences of a Pre-Ceramic Cultural Horizon in Smith County, Kansas,” Science, Vol 89, Issue 2306 (10 Mar 1939).
“Pollen Analysis and Its Bearing upon American Prehistory: A Critique,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Antiquity, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (October 1939).
“Montagnais-Naskapi Bands and Family Hunting Districts of the Central and Southeastern Labrador Peninsula,” Frank G. Speck, Loren C. Eiseley, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 85, No. 2, Jan. 24, 1942.
“Post-Glacial Climatic Amelioration and the Extinction of Bison taylori,” Science, Vol. 95, Issue 2478 (26 Jun 1942).
“The Folsom Mystery,” Loren C. Eiseley, “Scientific American,” Vol. 167, No. 6 (December, 1942).
“Archaeological Observations on the Problem of Post-Glacial Extinction,” Loren Eiseley, American Antiquity, Vol. 8, Issue 3, January 1943.
“Pseudo-Fossil Man,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 168, No. 3 (March, 1943).
“A Neglected Anatomical Feature of the Foxhall Jaw,” Loren C. Eiseley, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), Vol. 46 (Apr. 10, 1943).
“Who Were Our Ancestors?” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 168, No. 5 (May, 1943).
“Did the Folsom Bison Survive in Canada?” Loren C. Eiseley, The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 56, No. 5 (May, 1943).
“Some Paleontological Inferences as to the Life-Habits of the Australopithecines,” Science, Vol 98, Issue 2533 (16 Jul 1943).
“What Price Glory? The Counterplaint of an Anthropologist,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Sociological Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (Dec., 1943).
“An Extreme Case of Scaphocephaly from a Mound Burial near Troy, Kansas,” Loren C. Eiseley, C. Willet Asling, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), Vol. 47, No. 2 (Dec., 1944).
“Indian Mythology and Extinct Fossil Vertebrates,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Apr. – Jun., 1945).
“The Mastodon and Early Man in America,” Science, Vol 102, Issue 2640 (3 Aug 1945).
“Myth and Mammoth in Archaeology,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Antiquity, Vol. 11, Issue 2, October 1945.
“There Were Giants,” Loren C. Eiseley, Prairie Schooner, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Fall 1945).
“The Fire-Drive and the Extinction of the Terminal Pleistocene Fauna,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan. – Mar., 1946).
“Men, Mastodons, and Myth,” Loren C. Eiseley, The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 62, No. 6 (Jun., 1946).
“Missing Link or Hybrid-Which?” Loren C. Eiseley, Prairie Schooner, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter 1946).
“Land Tenure in the Northeast: A Note on the History of a Concept,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 49, No. 4, Part 1 (Oct. – Dec., 1947).
“The Fire and the Fauna,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 49, No. 4, Part 1 (Oct. – Dec., 1947).
“Early Man in South and East Africa,” Loren C. Eiseley, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 50, No. 1, Part 1 (Jan. – Mar., 1948).
“Antiquity of Modern Man,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 179, No. 1 (July 1948).
“Is Man Here To Stay?” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 183, No. 5 (November 1950).
“Is Man Alone in Space?” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 189, No. 1 (July 1953).
“The Flow of the River,” Loren C. Eiseley, The American Scholar, Vol. 22, No. 4 (autumn, 1953).
“Fossil Man,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 189, No. 6 (December 1953).
“Man the Fire-Maker,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 191, No. 3 (September 1954).
“The Program on the Darwin Collection in the Library,” Loren C. Eiseley, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 98, No. 6, Studies for the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Dec. 23, 1954).
“The Reception of the First Missing Links,” Loren C. Eiseley, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 98, No. 6, Studies for the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Dec. 23, 1954).
“Fossil Man and Human Evolution,” Loren C. Eiseley, Yearbook of Anthropology (1955).
“Charles Darwin,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 194, No. 2 (February, 1956).
“The Judgment of the Birds,” Loren C. Eiseley, The American Scholar, Vol. 25, No. 2 (spring, 1956).
“Oreopithecus: Homunculus or Monkey?” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 194, No. 6 (June 1956).
“The Enchanted Glass,” Loren Eiseley, The American Scholar, Vol. 26, No. 4. (Autumn 1957).
“Neanderthal Man and the Dawn of Human Paleontology,” Loren C. Eiseley, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 32, No. 4 (December 1957).
“Alfred Russel Wallace,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 200, No. 2 (February 1959).
“Charles Darwin, Edward Blyth, and the Theory of Natural Selection,” Loren C. Eiseley, A. Grote, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Feb. 28, 1959.
“Charles Lyell,” Loren C. Eiseley, Scientific American, Vol. 201, No. 2 (August 1959).
“The Long Loneliness: Man and the Porpoise: Two Solitary Destinies,” Loren C. Eiseley, The American Scholar, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter, 1960-61).
“Francis Bacon as Educator,” Science,Vol 133, Issue 3460, 21 Apr 1961.
“Man: The Lethal Factor,” Loren Eiseley, American Scientist, Vol. 51, No. 1, March, 1963.
“The Illusion of the Two Cultures,” Loren Eiseley, The American Scholar, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer, 1964).
“Darwin, Coleridge, and the Theory of Unconscious Creation,” Loren Eiseley, Daedalus, Vol. 94, No. 3, Creativity and Learning (Summer, 1965).
“Science and the Unexpected Universe,” Loren C. Eiseley, The American Scholar, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Summer, 1966).
“Man of the future,” Theory into Practice, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (1969).
“Activism and the Rejection of History,” Loren Eiseley, Science, Vol. 165, No. 3889 (11 July 1969).
“The Hope of Man,” Loren Eiseley, New York Times (Nov. 6, 1972).
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