PRIMITIVE MAN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 7

PRIMITIVE MAN

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE. „ AMERICAN INVESTIGATION. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 22, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. March 21. Dr. Alexander Hordjicka-, curator of physical anthropology "at the Smithsonian Institute, tho most, noted American scientific organisation, sails on March 25th, to study the primal habitations of man in Australia, especially the recent skeleton remains of Australian aborigines. He believes these will indicate something of the* progress of the race after it arrived' at the human stage, and is convinced from the data studied /elsewhere that he may be able to trace through those remains the various important sta-gqs of human development nearly up to historic times. He informed tho Aus tralian Press Association that these gradations of primeval man in Australia found a counterpart in other continents much earlier, and- traces elsewhere, therefore, are now much less distinct. Dr. Hordlicka will communicate with noted Australian scientists who have be 3*i collecting these remains recently. The trip will consume six months. He will visit also Java and South Africa, for correlative data.