Word: aleutions
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Aleutian skull appeared perfectly normal, with no evidence of giantism which would have thickened it, or of hydrocephaly ("water on the brain") which would have deformed it. The shape was symmetrical, the forehead impressive. Dr. Hrdlicka believed that it belonged to a brainy Aleut of ordinary stature who inhabited the islands some centuries before the coming of the Russians...