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- Title
FOLLOWING THE TRACKS OF DR. ALEŠ HRDLIČKA IN ALASKA.
- Authors
Prokopec, Miroslav
- Abstract
The last 16 years of his life Dr. Aleš Hrdlicka (Humpolec 29.3.1889--Washington DC 5.9.1943), the curator in Physical Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, a Czech by origin, was to a great extent occupied by his research in Alaska with the aim of bringing evidence for his theory of the coming of American Indians to America from Asia. The aim of the present author's trip to Alaska in 1992 was to visit the places which were described by Dr. Hrdlicka in his reports and to look for changes which had taken place since that time. Presuming that the climate and the nature remained more or less unchanged, he wanted to experience the feelings which Hrdlicka had had in those places at the time of his research. The author managed to visit the Hrdlicka's site Uyak Bay close to the Modern Village Larsen Bay on the Kodiak Island where all the skeletal material which Hrdlicka had uncovered there was reburied in 1991. The author was deeply impressed by the mighty Yukon River. He describes the places where Hrdlicka met Indian chiefs at Nenana and Tanana and describes his encounter with the old-timers as well as with the present day scientists from the Universities at Anchorage and Fairbanks.
- Subjects
HRDLICKA, Ales; PHYSICIANS; SCIENTISTS; ETHNIC groups; RIVERS; PHYSICAL anthropology
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2004, Vol 13, p193
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article