RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS
IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND
AUSTRALIA
an enigmatic Skull.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIWQHI.j
(IUBIRILUN.NEW ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 28th December. At Newhaven, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, president of tf* American Anthropological Society, addressed the organisation With reference to his investigations in.Africa, Asia, and Australia into racial developments. He declared: "I find the RhoJesian skull of much scientific ftnportanne. but still 8o enigniatib thfkt :no one know* what to make of it.''
Dr. Hrdlickn, referring to his 'Australian studies, said! "I was especially interested in the pUre-blooded aborigines along the coast, and their pßi'ticuJmly impressive nocturnal ceremonies." lie described an exceptional type from I'm Wyndham district —full-blooded^ fullcoloured aborigines, with tow hair, nttcl said: "Australian and Tasmanian aborigines deserve to be classed as one of die fundamental ra,ees of mankind, although not a race which shows a close connection with our ancestral stock, liafnely, not with negroes ov Melanesfans, but wit 1! the old white people of t,h« poatglacial times."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 6
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159RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 6
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