Patna University Readership Lectures 1920 Principles and Methods of Physical Anthropology

form—Race Classification by the shape of the Jaws—Race Classification by the shape of the Nose—Race Classification by Stature—Biometrical Method—General Classification of the Human Races—Characteristics of the Caucasian Type— Characteristics of the Mongolian Type—Characteristics of the Negro Type—Sub-Races—Subdivisions of the Caucasian Race—Anomalous Groups—The Austrio Theory—Subdivsions of the [...] boomerang----still used by the Orions in hunting; the Orion hardhisi or long coil-upon-coil of waist girdle made of creepers to which the first beginnings of clothing may perhaps be traced ; the digging stick used by the Asars and the $6rwits of Ch6ti Nigpur ; the long-barbed arrows hanging by the barbs from the matted hair of the Karla and the Juing ; the leahats and leaf-umbrellas extensivel [...] After a long blank in the history of the science we find in the sixteenth century Versalius (1513-1564) who was Professor of Anatomy in Padua making certain observations on the Fhape of the head of various nations such as the " globular " heal of the Greek and the Turks and the " flattened occiput " and " broad head " of the Germans. [...] To ascertain the time when the Hominid diverged from the common stock of the Anthropoidea the anthropologist collects his evidence by the stratigraphical method employed by the geologist and the palaeontologist and tests such evidence by the comparative method of the comparative anatomist and by the chemical methods by which the age of fossil bones may be roughly determined by the chemist. [...] Henry S. Wellcome yielded the skeletal remains of a tall Negro race resembling the modern Negroes of the valley of the White Nile' not only in general physical features but in traces of the use of liornaments and of the practice of knocking out the lower incisor teeth of the women.