Aleš Hrdlička

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title: Aleš Hrdlička
text: Alois Ferdinand Hrdlička, after 1918 changed to Aleš Hrdlička, was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia. Hrdlička was a pioneer in the field of anthropology and the first curator of physical anthropology of the Smithsonian Museum from 1904 until 1941. He correctly theorized that migration from Asia to the Americas via the Bering Strait was the origin of the American Indians, but incorrectly dated that mig
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description: Czech-American anthropologist
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date created: 2005-04-28T19:06:53Z
date modified: 2024-08-31T23:12:08Z
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