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...Alaska. Fifteen years ago it was generally believed that this migration occurred very late in the Stone Age, only 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, perhaps even later. Claims of greater antiquity were inexorably demolished, and largely through the efforts of one man-famed, Bohemian-born Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution...
Harvard's ace anthropologist, Earnest Albert Hooton, summed it up this way: "Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has stood like Horatius at the land bridge between Asia and North America, mowing down with deadly precision all would-be geologically ancient invaders of the New World...
...recent years things have got tougher for Horatius Hrdlicka. In 1931 the University of Minnesota's Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks investigated a human fossil turned up by a roadscraper. After long study he pronounced it to be that of a 15-year-old girl who had fallen or been thrown into a Glacial Age lake; he put her age at 20,000 years. Dr. Hrdlicka said No. He admitted that she had surprisingly big teeth, but could find no significant anthropological difference between her and recent Indians, did not seem to care about the geological evidence...
...hopping westward to the island of Umnak, Dr. Hrdlicka turned up another rich find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert...
Convinced after 13 weary years that he had finally proved the Mongolian ancestry of American Indians, happy Dr. Hrdlicka started for home last week. Exactly how the original Indians reached the shores of Alaska he did not know. But he was willing to bet that, after making the arduous journey to the Siberian coast, they traveled to what are now the Japanese-owned Kuril Islands, thence to the Aleutian bridge and North America...