Aleš Hrdlička

Aleš Hrdlička (March 30, 1869, Humpolec, today Czech Republic – 1943) was a Czech anthropologist living in the USA.

His family emigrated in the USA in 1881. After studies in New York and Paris Hrdlička started to work as an anthropologist. He was the one of the first scientists to argue that the Indians immigrated across the Bering Strait from Asia, supporting this theory with detailed field research.

Aleš Hrdlička became the first curator of Physical Anthropology of the U.S. National Museum, now the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in 1903. He was the founder of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Honors

• In World War II the United States liberty ship SS Ales Hrdlicka was named in his honor.

Bibliography

Hrdlicka A (1899) Anthropological investigations on one thousand white and colored children of both sexes, the inmates of the New York juvenile asylum, with additional notes on one hundred colored children of the New York colored asylum. [New York.

Hrdlicka A (1904) Directions for collecting information and specimens for physical anthropology. Washington: Govt. print. off.

Hrdlicka A (1905) Brain weight in vertebrates. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1906a) Brains and brain preservatives. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Hrdlicka A (1906b) Contribution to the physical anthropology of California : based on collections in the Department of anthropology of the University of California and in the U.S. National museum. Berkeley: The University Press.

Hrdlicka A (1907) Skeletal remains suggesting or attributed to early man in North America. Washington: Govt. print. off.

Hrdlicka A (1908) Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Washington: Govt Print Off.

Hrdlicka A (1909) Tuberculosis among certain Indian tribes of the United States. Washington: Govt. Print. Off.

Hrdlicka A (1910) Contribution to the anthropology of central and Smith sound Eskimo. New York: The Trustees.

Hrdlicka A (1911) Some results of recent anthropological exploration in Peru, with four plates. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1912a) Medical and anthropological publications. [n.p.

Hrdlicka A (1912b) The natives of Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1912c) Remains in eastern Asia of the race that peopled America (with three plates). Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1914) Anthropological work in Peru, in 1913, with notes on the pathology of the ancient Peruvians, with twenty-six plates. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1916a) The most ancient skeletal remains of man. Washington: Govt. Print. Off.

Hrdlicka A (1916b) Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians in general. New York: The Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation.

Hrdlicka A (1918) Recent discoveries attributed to early man in America. Washington: Govt. print. off.

Hrdlicka A (1919a) Physical anthropology; its scope and aims; its history and present status in the United States. Philadelphia: The Wistar institute of anatomy and biology.

Hrdlicka A (1919b) The races of Russia (with 1 map). Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1920) Anthropometry. Philadelphia: The Wistar institute of anatomy and biology.

Hrdlicka A (1922) The anthropology of Florida. Deland, Fla.: The Society.

Hrdlicka A (1924) Catalogue of human crania in the United States National Museum collections. Washington: Govt. Print. Off.

Hrdlicka A (1925a) The old Americans. Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company.

Hrdlicka A (1925b) The origin and antiquity of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O.

Hrdlicka A (1927a) Anthropology of the American Negro : historical notes. [Philadelphia: Wistar Institute Press.

Hrdlicka A (1927b) The Neanderthal phase of man. London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Hrdlicka A (1929) Bibliography of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka [1892-1928]. Prague: Imp. V. & A. Janata, N. Bydzov.

Hrdlicka A (1930a) Anthropological survey in Alaska. Washington.

Hrdlicka A (1930b) The skeletal remains of early man. City of Washington: The Smithsonian institution.

Hrdlicka A (1931) Children who run on all fours, and other animal-like behaviors in the human child. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc.

Hrdlicka A (1934) The hypotrochanteric fossa of the femur (with 14 plates). City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1935a) Ear exostoses (with five plates). City of Washington: The Smithsonian institution.

Hrdlicka A (1935b) Melanesians and Australians and the peopling of America. City of Washington: The Smithsonian institution.

Hrdlicka A (1937) Biographical memoir of George Sumner Huntington, 1861-1927. [Washington: The National Academy of Sciences.

Hrdlicka A (1939) Practical anthropometry. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

Hrdlicka A (1940a) Observations and measurements on the members of the National academy of sciences. [Washington: U.S. Govt. print. off.

Hrdlicka A (1940b) Ritual ablation of front teeth in Siberia and America (with five plates). City of Washington: The Smithsonian institution.

Hrdlicka A (1941a) Diseases of and artifacts on skulls and bones from Kodiak island. City of Washington: The Smithsonian institution.

Hrdlicka A (1941b) Exploration of mummy caves in the Aleutian Islands. [Lancaster, Pa.: The Science Press.

Hrdlicka A (1942a) Catalog of human crania in the United States National Museum collections: Eskimo in general. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1942b) The peoples of the Soviet Union. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Hrdlicka A (1943) Alaska diary, 1926-1931. Lancaster, Pa.: The Jaques Cattell press.

Hrdlicka A (1944a) The anthropology of Kodiak island. Philadelphia: The Wistar institute of anatomy and biology.

Hrdlicka A (1944b) Catalog of human crania in the United States National Museum collections. Non-Eskimo people of the northwest coast, Alaska, and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum.

Hrdlicka A (1970) Contribution to the physical anthropology of California. Berkeley: The University Press.

Hrdlicka A (1989) The Aleutian and Commander islands and their inhabitants. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

Hrdlicka A, Fenner CN, Wright FE, Holmes WH, and Willis B (1912) Early man in South America. Washington: G. P. O.

Hrdlicka A, Merbs CF, Christensen NR, Tyson RA, and Alcauskas ESD (1980) Catalogue of the Hrdlicka paleopathology collection. San Diego, Calif.: San Diego Museum of Man.

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