Elliot Smith | anthropologist | Britannica (original) (raw)
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cultural diffusionism
In culture: Acculturation …such as Fritz Graebner and Elliot Smith, who offered grand theories about the diffusion of traits all over the world—maintained that man was inherently uninventive and that culture, once created, tended to spread everywhere. Each school tended to insist that its view was the correct one, and it would continue… Read More
mosaic evolution theory
In Raymond A. Dart …from the mosaicist position of Elliot Smith, who held that hominization began with an enlarged cranial capacity. Nevertheless, Dart lived to see his theories corroborated by further discoveries of Australopithecus remains at Makapansgat in South Africa in the late 1940s and by the subsequent discoveries of Louis Leakey, which firmly… Read More