H. Otley Beyer - Philippine and East Asian Archaeology, and it's relation to the origin of the Pacific Islands Population

H. Otley Beyer - Philippine and East Asian Archaeology, and it's relation to the origin of the Pacific Islands Population - Quezon City - The National Research Council of the Philippines - December 1948 - 1st edition - 130, [82] pp - Cloth binding - 17 x 25 cm.

Condition: Good - and 'touched'; see more info below.

Research findings of archaeologic investigations on the Philippines and East-Asia region, regarding the origins of the people of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated with a plate section with black and white reproductions of Neolithic weapons (arrowheads, hand axes, stone tools). With BIBLIOGRAPHY.

American anthropologist Henry Otley Beyer (1883-1966) spent much of his life in the Philippines, where he studied the country's indigenous populations. In 1972 his collection was purchased by the National Library of Australia.

¶ Hardcover edition, an overprint, "reprinted from 'Bulletin No. 29; pp.1-130". This copy with signed dedication from the author "With the highest regards / Manila, January 1949". The book then ended up in the library of the Dutch painter Willem van Manen, who also left his signature and stamp on the first free endpaper.