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Man in India January-March 1933
1933
The stratigraphic study of culture on the lines of the German school and mapping out of culture areas and definite distribution of traits of a culture complex is far more fruitful of results in the fields of material culture. [...] If the theory of Matthew as to South Central Asia being the cradle of mankind be true and if since Miocene times there have been migrations of anthropoid and proto-man types from near the border of the Himalayas to the borders of the Pacific on the one hand and Africa on the other India has very likely played a very prominent part in the ditribution of early cultural traits if not of physical [...] On the other hand it is likely that some undiffrentiated prOtomorphic varieties from which sprang the Negro of Africa on the one hand and the Negritos of the Pacific on the other might have been the direct ancestors of some of the darkest tribes of India like the Kadirs who differ from6 Man in India. [...] Thus the studies of Pitt-Rivers in the light of recent methods would make Australia the centre of origin of the boomerang and though peripheral it spread from that area to the entire region of this culture. [...] The mass of living beings is the result of the interaction of the different types of Chit energy in Jar.
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