544 HRDLICKA— THE PEOPLING OF ASIA. 



About the same time or but shortly after the Negrito reached 

 southern Asia there was taking place a larger movement of yellow- 

 brown population from the more westward drying up regions into 

 eastern Asia and over southern Siberia. This population gradually 

 spread over the whole Asiatic continent north of the Himalayas 

 and, multiplying, began to extend in all directions — through the 

 Negrito area to the south and southeastward, peophng the south- 

 eastern parts of the continent with Malaysia ; it peopled the Nippon 

 Archipelago ; and as food was diminishing or pressure behind be- 

 came greater, it extended along the coast northward to the north- 

 eastern limits of the continent, whence it passed on gradually and 

 repeatedly, over the various practicable routes, still further east- 

 ward, reaching and eventually peopling America. Still later the 

 surplus of this brown population in the south, admixed already to 

 some extent with the Negrito as well as with a more important 

 contingent of the more recent near-white-man types from the 

 west, peopled Micronesia and Polynesia. Meanwhile the older and 

 darker yellow-brown wave was, according to all indications, fol- 

 lowed by successively lighter, though still yellow-brown waves of 

 people from the west, which, penetrating among and mixing with 

 the old population, gave us such actual ethnic units as the Chinese, 

 Japanese, Koreans and Tatars. Remnants of the oldest brown 

 wave are still discernible in the living population in many parts of 

 this vast region, particularly in Mongolia, Thibet, the Saghalien 

 and the Formosa Island, as well as in parts of Siberia. 



All these yellow-brown people could have had but one far- 

 back parentage — that of the early Neolithic western Asiatics, and 

 with these that of the Paleolithic Europeans. They unquestion- 

 ably must proceed from the same source as the white race, but 

 they separated from the mother stock before or during the earlier 

 parts of the period of its differentiation into the white Europeans. 



A word at the conclusion about the origin of the Negrito and 

 Negro. They too, upon a critical examination, present ample evi- 

 dence of original identity with the old Mediterranean and European 

 stock. They are no separate species, and the main physical differ- 

 ences between them and the rest of mankind are but skin deep. 

 Their forebears must have separated from the general parent 



