This series includes correspondence, notes, and photographs associated with Hrdlička's trip to South America. This trip was prompted by Florentino Ameghino's claim to have found evidence of early hominids in Argentina in the early 1900s. Hrdlička was eager to investigate these claims and, since he was attending the XVIIth International Congress of Americanists held that year in Argentina and Mexico, he took the opportunity to investigate the subject of early man in all of South America. Hrdlička examined the Argentine remains and, assisted by Bailey Willis of the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted a survey of several Argentine sites. Hrdlička had visited Brazil before going to Argentina, and upon finishing his work in Argentina visited Peru (where he collected almost 3400 crania). He then went to Mexico for that section of the Congress.
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Aleš Hrdlička papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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The Repatriation Office, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, provided funds for the arrangement and description of the Aleš Hrdlička papers
