The New York Times · 10 May 1930

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Says Africans Were First in Palestine

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SAYS AFRICANS WERE d FIRST IN PALESTINE Sir Arthur Keith Tells British Surgeons of Cave-Dwellers of Prehistoric Days. EUROPEAN IN BODY TYPE Faces Only of Residents of 1400 B. C. Were Negroid, He Asuerts - Teeth Pulled as Rite. Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMER.

9.-Sir LONDON, May Arthur Keith, the eminent scientist, remind- ed the Moslem and Jewish disputants earliest of Palestine today that the of the Holy Land inhabitants neither Arabs nor Jews, but a small- bodied people from Northern Africa.

Discussing the recent Mount Royal before excavations College of Surgeons, Sir Arthur said: Palestinians had short "The early different faces and long heads, g Cromagnon tall, strong contemporaries France. short noses „distinct e low-bridged with a suggestion of African origin. of Palestine prac- he opvo-dwellers ticed extraction of the upper incisor said Sir Arthur- teeth from youths, said still was

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"Says Africans Were First in Palestine," The New York Times, 10 May 1930. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1930-009. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1930-009

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