ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA 9 



a single filum of ancestral representatives in central 

 Asia, and admit that the passage of the southern barrier 

 was effected in successive waves, then it follows that, even 

 with such a hypothesis, the third genetic centre placed 

 by us in the southern regions, can be connected origin- 

 ally with central Asia. In other words, the unity of 

 the filum is anterior to the differentiation, contemplated 

 in our hypothesis. 



The hypothesis of Matthew is in favour of hetero- 

 chronism, so that we can complete it in the form of a 

 scheme for Asia, distributing as follows all the Asiatics 

 of the present day : 



(a) Groups of the 1st cycle of migrations : Proto- 

 morphs and (secondly) metamorphs of India and the 

 Philippines, the Ainus, Negritoes, Australoids (Veddah, 

 Toala, etc.), Dravidians. 



(b) Groups of the 2nd cycle of migrations : Leuco- 

 derms, Mongolians, Indonesians. 



That Asia was inhabited in Palaeolithic times, when 

 the fauna was different from that at the present day is a 

 fact that has been already demonstrated : Deniker 1 notes 

 the association of instruments of quartzite with the bones 

 of extinct animals in the ancient alluvium of the rivers 

 Nerbudda, Krishna and Godavari 2 and records other 

 instruments in Siberia beside the skeleton of a mammoth 

 broken to pieces. What some of the ancient inhabitants 

 may have been we may surmise from the excavations 

 of Turkestan, which have yielded elongated crania with 



1 DENIKER (J.), op. cit., p. 423. 



'* Of this and other discoveries which have taken place in India a very valuable 

 sketch has been lately published by PANCHANAN MITBA, Prehistoric Cultures and 

 Races of India. A Preliminary Revieu: " The Calcutta University Journal of 

 Arts," Vol. I, Calcutta, 1919, pp. 137 ff and also Prehistoric Arts and Crafts of India. 

 University of Calcutta, Anthrop. Pap., No. 1, Calcutta 1920. For other parts of 

 Asia consult BOULE (M.), Les hoinmes fossiles, Paris, 1921, pp. 354 ff. 



