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Manuscripts, drafts and published articles

Archive Collections / Dr Joseph Benjamin Birdsell / Series AA689/11 / Manuscripts, drafts and published articles

Folder 1

  1. Notes on 'The Role of Systematic Infanticide in Human Evolution.' 14 cards measuring 20.0x13.0cm.

  2. Draft 'An Archaic Molar Pattern in north-east Australia.' 34pp. Includes tables and a graph.

  3. Notes and summary table: 'Median Sag Hal Crest.' 6pp and 1 card.

  4. Draft 'An Investigation of the Territoriality of the Wonkadjunga' [Wongkanguru] people. 4pp.

  5. Draft 'Tribes used in 1976 Analysis.' [Man-Land Project] 6pp.

  6. Draft 'Variable 88 A sorting variable.' [Man-Land Project] 4pp.

  7. Draft 'On Some Ambiguities Revolving About the Oceanic Negritos.' Pages 1-14 are not held. 7pp.

  8. Notes 'What do we know about the brain' [pp.2, possibly notes from a text].

  9. Draft 'Basic Assumptions and Consequent Conclusions.' Criticism of morphological typing of crania. 11pp.

  10. Untitled Draft, dated 22/3/1963. Subject: Infanticide. 5pp.

  11. Draft 'Appendix. A case of surgical abortion by Aboriginal Australians.' Dated 22/3/1963. 2pp.

  12. Draft 'Breast Form in Pygmoid Women.' 4pp.

  13. Notes on Infanticide. Includes tables. 7pp.

  14. Notes on Old Australian White Series from Harvard and Adelaide Universities expedition, 1938-1939. 1pp.

  15. Draft, Untitled. Annotated 'New Abstract not for text.' Subject: Polymorphism. 2pp.



Folder 2
  1. Draft 'Of the Use of Probabilities in Univariate Analysis.' Subject: Mungo I. 12pp.

  2. Notes 'Mungo Caper.' Includes tables, figures, references, seriations and descriptive statistics. 87pp.



Folder 3
  1. Draft 'The Problem of the Oceanic Negritos.' 5pp.

  2. Draft 'The Ituri Pygmies. No to the Null Hypothesis.' 17pp.

  3. Letter to the editor of American Anthropologist Includes notes, drafts, tables and number of pages marked 'Selection Caper.' 56pp.

  4. Draft 'An Aboriginal Youth Cult in north-east Australia.' Includes notes, tables and figures. 7pp.



Folder 4
  1. Notes 'Victorian Aboriginal Series taken from Brough Smyth.' 2pp.

  2. Notes 'Additions to the Draft Set (Hrdlicka)' 6pp.

  3. Notes 'Preliminary Comments on the Use of Hrdlicka's Crania[al data].' 12pp.

  4. Notes 'The Terminology of Clinical Topography.' 1pp.

  5. Notes on 'University of Adelaide Series.' 2pp.

  6. Notes on 'Warner's Series.' 3pp.

  7. Notes on 'Preliminary Comments on Final Tribal Map.' 6pp.

  8. Draft, 'Summary of Four Ear Traits.' 1pp.

  9. Draft, 'Appendix A-1. Reconstruction of Tribal Sizes in Western Australia.' 4pp. Published in Birdsell (1993) Previous drafts of this section with notes, maps and tables. 47pp.



Folder 5
  1. Figures and Photographs (2 sets) photocopied from text. 37pp.



Folder 6
  1. Draft 'Tests of an Evolutionary Hypothesis.' Subject: Neanderthal evolution. Includes the first and subsequent drafts, notes, references and tables. 11pp.

  2. Draft 'Roles of Evolution and the Neanderthal Problem.' 54 reference cards and 151pp.



Folder 7
  1. Drafts, notes, tables, data on 'Man-Land' Project. (unfinished.) Includes a note from Birdsell regarding the reasons why the project was uncompleted. 116pp. Folder 1 of 2.



Folder 8
  1. Drafts, notes, tables, data on 'Man-Land' Project. (unfinished.) Includes a note from Birdsell regarding the reasons why the project was not completed. 72pp. Folder 2 of 2.



Folder 9
  1. Draft 'A P-Gene. Analysis of Time as a Factor in the Graying of Head Hair.' Includes notes, references, tables, data and graphs regarding the graying of head and beard hair in a range of population groups. 2 reference cards and 163pp.



Folder 10
  1. Draft 'Hybrid Variability and Evolutionary Analysis.' 2pp. Includes drafts notes, tables, figures and references. 2 reference cards and 34pp.



Folder 11
  1. Draft 'On the Occurrence of Unique, Finite, Small Populations in Nature.' JB Birdsell and SH Brooks. 4 cards and 36pp.

  2. Draft 'A Comparison of Methods of Estimating Confidence Limits in Gene Populations.' SH Brooks and JB Birdsell. Draft dated July 1967. 58pp.

  3. Draft 'A Comparison of Methods of Estimating Confidence Limits in Gene Populations.' By SH Brooks and JB Birdsell dated May 1970. 37pp.

  4. Draft JB Birdsell's 'Reply to Professor Dixon.' 4pp.

  5. Draft JB Birdsell's 'Reply to Professor Kirk.' 9pp.

  6. JB Birdsell's review of 'The Original Australians.' by AA Abbie (see AA 688) 1969, 7pp.

  7. JB Birdsell's review of 'The Original Australians.' by AA Abbie 1969, 11pp.

  8. JB Birdsell's review of 'The Living Races of Man.' by CS Coon 1965, 2pp.

  9. JB Birdsell's review of 'Race.' By JR Barker 1974. 7pp.



Folder 12
  1. Draft, 'Polygenie Variation in Australian and Tasmanian Hybrid Populations.' Drafts of chapters. Handwritten and sections typewritten. 189pp.



Folder 13
  1. Draft, 'Polygenie Variation in Australian and Tasmanian Hybrid Populations.'

  2. Drafts of chapters, sections handwritten. Includes notes, tables, references and data. 164pp.

Creator: Dr Joseph Benjamin Birdsell
Control: AA 689/11
Quantity:  36cm,   13   folders of papers.
Series:  AA689/11