Their type has no very definite peculiarity, and ethnologistsseem agreed to consider them a mixed race, resulting from a cross between the Papuans and the Malays, and forming the transition between the two races.
Do these populations truly form, as some ethnologists assert, a distinct and homogeneous race; or are they not rather independent offshoots of the Japhetic race in Europe, of the Mongolian in Asia, of the Redskins in America?
Ethnologists generally consider them to have a common origin with the Finns of Europe.
That many of these philological ethnologists also hold to the view that these Aryans were north-European pagan blonds may raise a personal question of consistency but does not otherwise touch the present argument.
It is only by force of this assumption that ethnologists are able to identify any given racial stock over intervals of space or time, and so to trace the racial affinities of any given people.
So much is well authenticated by the observations on which anthropologists and ethnologists draw for their materials.
Modern ethnologists generally agree that the Indian races of America are derived from Mongoloid sources in Eastern Asia, either through Polynesia or by way of the Aleutian Islands.
One of the most eminent ethnologists and anthropologists, Prof.
The results of the ethnologists are so tangled here that one has to be cautious when one or another of them draws conclusions concerning immigrations, because of certain local or territorial specializations.
The evidence collected of late years by ethnologists shows that the masses of the English population are descended from the early peoples of the Pre-Agricultural and Early Agricultural Ages.
Some ethnologists incline to connect the Solutrean culture with a new people whose presence is indicated by the skulls found at Bruenn and Bruex in Bohemia.
Modern ethnologists lean to the view that the masses of the present-day population of Europe betray Palaeolithic racial affinities.
Westermarck challenged the sweeping generalizations indulged in by many ethnologists about primitive promiscuity in sexual relations and the necessary passage of all human tribes through the stages of matriarchy and group marriage.
Ethnologists of Post's school have not had it entirely their own way, however.
The rights of ethnologists to have their say in regard to legal, political and social development was forcibly illustrated from both ends, as it were.
The bulk of the Semitic and Hamitic-speaking peoples are put by ethnologists with the Aryans among the Caucasian group of races.
Ethnologists (students of race) class these new human races in one same species as ourselves, and with all human races subsequent to them, under one common specific name of Homo sapiens.
Japanese ethnologists interpret the ancient annals as pointing to very close intercourse between Japan and Korea in early days,* and regard this as confirming the theory stated above as to the provenance of the Yamato race.
A valuable endowment of research in specimens, literature and pictures, deposited in libraries, museums and galleries since 1880, will keep ethnologists and archaeologists employed for many years to come.
From the position of the Aleutian islands, stretching like a broken bridge from Asia to America, some ethnologists have supposed that by means of them America was first peopled.
Ethnologists have tried repeatedly and in vain to show there was a resemblance of this American life to the Egyptian civilization.
Whether this was their primitive abode, or whether their ancestors had come at a much earlier time from a central home in northern Africa, which is considered by ethnologists as the centre from which developed the Caucasian race, is not known.
Sergi and other ethnologists have classed this type as a variety of the Mediterranean race, which had its area of localization on the edge of the snow belt on lofty plateaus and in proximity to the Arctic circle.
Of late years ethnologists have inclined to regard the lower types represented by hill and jungle tribes, the Veddas of Ceylon, &c.
Their eastern prehistoric migrations is by some ethnologists believed to be marked by the Ainus of Japan.
Nice little cultural trait for the ethnologists to put in their peace pipes and smoke.
A couple of ethnologists from Earth stumbled on it a little over a century ago and what happened?
American ethnologists long clung to the idea of an essentially distinct indigenous race; and Dr.
In years gone by, ethnologists have attached too little importance to the bearing which music has on their science.
And, no doubt, as a plan thought out and deliberately adopted as a whole, most ethnologists would consider it above the capacity of Australian aborigines.
I am not such a despairer of ethnology as some ethnologists would have me.
For this very reason ethnologists and mythologists should make themselves acquainted with the simple principles of comparative philology.
This was remarked by Plutarch eighteen centuries ago,[415] and the researches and explorations of modern travelers and ethnologists have added confirmation to its truth.
This concurrent testimony of sacred and profane history, which designates Western Asia as the cradle of the historic nations, has received additional confirmation from the researches of modern ethnologists and philologists.
All ethnologists admit that descent through females has been very widespread, but some deny that this system has been universally prevalent at any stage of culture.
The long-headed Teutonic race of northern Europe is regarded now by ethnologists as an offshoot of the long-headed brunette Mediterranean race of African origin, which became bleached out under the pale suns of Scandinavian skies.
Because certain statements, to a contrary effect, being taken up without a due amount of preliminary criticism, have directed the views of historians and ethnologists towards a wrong point.
I think this can be no longer denied, and the observations made by German ethnologists show that the race in a more or less modified state is widely spread.
Haddon It is a great pleasure to me to introduce Mr. Williamson's book to the notice of ethnologists and the general public, as I am convinced that it will be read with interest and profit.
If the theory of the ethnologists be correct, that most of the Wisconsin mounds were built by the Winnebagoes, then at times they must have dwelt in nearly every corner of the State.
The conical mounds are called by ethnologists tumuli.
In my own mind Belgium was originally Keltic; and, perhaps, nine ethnologists out of ten hold the same opinion.
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