REMAINS IN EASTERN ASIA OF THE RACE THAT 



PEOPLED AMERICA 



(With Three Plates) 



By DR. A. HRDLICKA 



CURATOR OF THE DIVISION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



During the summer of 1912 the writer visited, partly under the 

 auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and partly in the interest of 

 the Panama-Californian Exposition of San Diego, certain portions of 

 Siberia and Mongolia in search for possible remains of the race that 

 peopled America, and whose home, according to all indications, was 

 in eastern Asia. Upon the return of the writer from his journey in 

 September this brief report was presented at the International Con- 

 gress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology at Geneva. 



The journey extended to certain regions in southern Siberia, both 

 west and east of Lake Baikal, and to Mongolia as far as Urga. It 

 furnished an opportunity for a rapid survey, from the anthropological 

 standpoint, of the field and conditions in those regions, and was made 

 in connection with a prolonged research into the problems of the 

 ethnic nature and origin of the American aborigines carried on by 

 the writer on this continent. 



The studies of American anthropologists and archeologists have for 

 a long time been strengthening our opinion that the American native 

 did not originate in America, but is the result of a comparatively re- 

 cent, post-glacial, immigration into this country ; that he is physically 

 and otherwise most closely related to the yellow-brown peoples of 

 eastern Asia and Polynesia ; and that in all probability he represents, 

 in the main at least, a gradual overflow from north-eastern Siberia. 1 



If our views concerning the origin of the Indian and his compara- 

 tively late coming into America be correct, then it seems there ought 

 to exist to this day, in some parts of eastern Asia, archeological re- 

 mains, and possibly even survivals, of the physical stock from which 

 our aborigines resulted. For it could have been no small people that 



1 For a summary of these opinions see " The Problems of the Unity or 

 Plurality and the Probable Place of Origin of the American Aborigines " 

 in The American Anthropologist, Vol. 14, No. 1, January-,March, 1912. 



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