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Many of Peabody's exhibits are therefore of a sufficiently high technical nature to warm the heart of the most demanding practicing anthropologist. One of the Museum's prize displays, for instance, is its room devoted entirely ot sequences of prehistoric artifacts--row on row of stone implements, demonstrating Stone Age man's first feeble attempts at tool-making. In the so-called "bone laboratory," some 15,000 human skeletal remains repose in carefully classified cases for the edification of the Univeristy's physical anthropologists. The physical anthropology section of the Museum has the distinction of possessing the largest collection...
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Peabdoy expeditions often are pioneering anthropological projects, branching into relatively undeveloped areas of study. According to a common anecdote, probably as old as the Piltdown Man and just about as authentic, every Navaho family consists of a father, a mother, two children, and an anthropologist. Peabody has done it share in the past to develop such familiar channels of research, but pr recent years, Museum expeditions have tended to enter virgin anthropological territory...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...
...Christian support of conservative or reactionary elements, he added in an interview, is not the way to cope with Communist competition: "The Christian opposition to Communism should express itself as a Christian concern for the social revolution.:" Anthropologist Absolom Vikakazi of Natal, South Africa, currently teaching at the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford, Conn., pointed to the growing movement in South Africa toward what are called separatist churches. These (there were about 800 at the last count in 1948) have broken away from the white-dominated mission churches, to set up their own, sometimes reverting to the practice...