“…and Aleš Hrdlička let their needs be known to potential suppliers (Broca, 1865;Hrdlička, 1904). These included colonial administrators, explorers, doctors and especially members of the military who were instructed to collect bodies from hospitals, battlefields (after massacres from quelling uprisings or rebellions in the colonial states) and graveyards-all in the name of racial science (Dias, 2012;Roque, 2011). Roque (2011) compellingly argues that the demand for bodies from India, Indonesia, Macau, Timor, Taiwan, and other colonies throughout Asia and Oceania by British, French, Portuguese, Italian, German and Dutch scientists, was not simply to increase scientific knowledge about human variation.…”