Sir Grafton Elliot SmithFRS FRSE FRCP (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.[1] He believed in the idea that cultural innovations occur only once and that they spread geographically. Based on this, he traced the origins of many cultural and traditional practices across the world, including the New World, to ideas that he believed came from Egypt and in some instances from Asia. An expert on brain anatomy, he was one of the first to study Egyptian mummies using radiological techniques. He took an interest in extinct humanoids and was embroiled in controversy over the authenticity of the Piltdown Man.
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origins remain unclear. In his study of Yuya's mummy the anatomist GraftonElliotSmith noted that although his features are not classically Egyptian, he...
demonstrator at the University College, London in 1920 at the behest of GraftonElliotSmith, famed anatomist, anthropologist and fellow Australian. This was...
members of the Piltdown Man committee: Sir Arthur Keith, GraftonElliotSmith, and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward. They were much more skeptical about this fossil's...
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about Kura-okami show that this divinity is a dragon or snake." GraftonElliotSmith provides a Trans-cultural diffusionist perspective. The snake takes...
in the Deir el-Bahari cache (DB320) in 1881 and was unwrapped by GraftonElliotSmith and A. R. Ferguson on September 9, 1905. The location of his tomb...
areas. Alfred Walter Campbell then divided it into 14 areas. Sir GraftonElliotSmith (1871–1937), a New South Wales native working in Cairo, identified...
later examined by GraftonElliotSmith who described Inhapi as a big, strong-built woman with a strong resemblance to her brother. Smith dates her burial...
Egypt. The first X-ray of a mummy came in 1903, when professors GraftonElliotSmith and Howard Carter used the only X-ray machine in Cairo at the time...
by Victor Loret in 1898. An examination of his mummy conducted by GraftonElliotSmith revealed that he was extremely emaciated at the time of his death...
teeth, the canine could not have been any higher than the molars. GraftonElliotSmith, a fellow anthropologist, sided with Woodward, and at the next Royal...
and other monkey species, by anatomist and Egyptologist GraftonElliotSmith. Based on Smith’s observations from studying over 400 Egyptian human and ape...
was the domain of GraftonElliotSmith, a professor of anatomy and noted proponent of hyperdiffusionism. Forde studied under Smith and, upon completing...
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