Word: mongoloid
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...genuine man was probably in southeastern Asia, or somewhere on a belt stretching northwest to England. No traces of really ancient humans had been found in America, and the Western Hemisphere was believed to have been uninhabited by men until people from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year on the La Brea ranch, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka...