Word: ainu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First inhabitants of Australia, Birdsell said, appear to have been a pigmy people, some 20,000 years ago. Later comers, according to the theory, were a primitive, hairy, white strain from south-eastern Asia, related to the hairy Ainu, of Japan; and a third, dark-skinned people, with thick brow ridges, bearing a relationship to certain peoples found in India, and Ceylon...