Kennedy K A, Chiment J
Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Soc Sci Med. 1992 Jan;34(2):119-23. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90088-8.
The practice of 'racial palaeontology' disappeared 50 years ago with the fall of the biological race concept in systematics and population genetics. However, certain ethnic minorities claim close biological affinities with extinct (sometimes Pleistocene) populations. Forensic anthropologists may be involved in this issue through analyses of prehistoric and modern populations in circumstances where a biological continuum may exist. Skeletal evidence from South Asia is discussed.