Origin of the American Indians.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 August 1914, Page 2

Origin of the American Indians.

~ Dr. X- Hedlicka, of the United (States l\ Tational Museum, has recently made an expensive visit to south-eastern Siberia and northern Mongolia^ for the express purpose of seekinjg possibly remains of the race thjat peopled America, i.e., the ancestors of 7the American Indians. He investigated both the contents of ancient burial mounds and the Asiatic t:ribes of the present day, andl in both cases found much more evidence than he expected. He coneludeis that there exist to-day over larjge parts; of eastern Siberia, and in Mongolia, Tibet, and other regions in that part of the world, numerouai remains, which now form constituent parts of more modern tribes or nations, of a more an- I cient population, perhaps related in ! ■j origin to the latest palaeolithic i , Europeans, which was physically j identical with and in all probability gave rise to the American In- , dians. He reports , a vast and rich field for anthropological and archaeological research in eastern |' Asia.