"Noted Scientist: Indian Skulls Prove Black Ancestry. Excavations under Indian Mounds in the West to Be Continued. Evidence Is Conclusive" (newspaper clipping, date…
Lens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1900
SUMMARY"Noted Scientist: Indian Skulls Prove Black Ancestry. Excavations under Indian Mounds in the West to Be Continued. Evidence Is Conclusive" (newspaper clipping, date and paper unidentified) (Nov 4, 2026). Shared by Tito. RECORD, what is visible: the headlines above, and the opening lines: "...it seems as if all those students who have dealt with the problem of the origin of the Indian regarded America as indeed a new world, as exempt from the experiences of the old..." The typeface and style suggest roughly 1900–1925. The scientist's name, the paper and the date are cut off. SEARCHED (Nov 4): web searches for the headline and the opening sentence found no source page; Chronicling America could not be queried from here. CONTEXT: in that era, "proof" from skulls meant craniometry, measuring skull shapes into racial types, a method now rejected; so the clipping is a hostile-era method reaching a conclusion the establishment did not want (an admission, Rule 13), but the method itself is weak evidence. Related: Walter Neves's reading of Luzia's skull (P-card, Disputed) and the later ancient-DNA studies
LENS (WW9)a mainstream paper of the time printed that the mound skulls showed Black ancestry, as "conclusive."
OPENidentify the paper, date and scientist (search Chronicling America or Newspapers.com for "Indian skulls prove black ancestry"); find where the excavated mound skulls went. Needs deep research.