Word: hrdlicka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
...everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
North America. In Alaska, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution scoured the shoreland and islands north to Point Barrow, then worked southward, following the Yukon to its mouth, in search of relics left by problematical Asiatic migrations to America. The anthropological world waited to hear if he could establish kinship between North American red Indians and identical human types visible today in northeastern Asia...
Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka is off to search the shores of Kotzebue and Norton Sounds, Alaska, for traces of battlegrounds storied in Eskimo legend, where Asian ancestors of the Indians may have fought among themselves during successive waves of migration across the icefields from Siberia and the Diomede Islands...
...Pronounce the surname of Dr, Ales Hrdlicka. (See SCIENCE...