Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-11-18 | Page 5 | Who's to Dispute This Fellow is Not a California Native Son?

Who s 's to Dispute This Fellow Is Is Not a a California Native Son x f a 4 z t M t aw y i 45 J Rt 4 H 7 rS- rS k r rY E if I By JACK JUNGMEYER N NEA EA Service Writer V SANTA BARBARA Cal Nov 17 Timing his his posthumous reappearance reappear reappear- ance to jibe with efforts in several states tates to squelch the teaching of ot human luman evolution the Santa anta Barara Barbara Bar Bar- bara ara Man emerges from his year yea fear sleep to level a stony eyed challenge at these disputants I John P. P Harrington Barrington Smithsonian archeologist unearthed him here a afew aj few ew days since burled from time timo 1 Immemorial under was recent recent- recently I Ily ly y the courtyard of ot a fashionable I hotel About all aU hat Is js preserved of ot Homo Is his thick low brewed and jawed skull kull But that Is sufficient for tor scIentists scientists to envisage the whole creature creaturo crea- crea turo ture uro as he once roamed among his prehistoric kind A Just jest above the ape by all aU the bony evi evl dence ence INDIAN PROGENITOR Considered the most significant I archeological years the skull seems to provide another of ot those missing links long sought and occasionally oc- oc accidentally found to bolMer bolster bolter bol bol- bol- bol ter ster Mer the theory of mans man's transmutation tIon ion from Beast to Babbitt Pending fending more careful study this primitive Is Js believed to be the progenitor pro- pro genitor of ot the American Indian and the he cousin of ot those races which roamed the glacial steppes of Europe Europe Eu- Eu rope ope when the world was young And so th that t Mr Barbar greatest of ot American grandfathers the may no not h have hiLve ve t to pear bear ear alone the b bf bt f scientists scientists' and the eventual curious gaze gaze of ot the worlds world's young folk tolk his hlf wife has has' has come come up upu u the e crY crypt with wJ h him HER MOUTH OPEN Her skull lay beside hi his differing just enough to be pronounced female female fe- fe male by the exhumers Her jaws remain open widely distended as if to orf nd her mate from that terser ter ter- terror IOl ser which rimy may have laid them down downto tC 1 to become the riddle of 01 another ago age Both skulls are extraordinarily thick cf of heavy nearly heavy twice as 1 cranium as any present-day present man In profile they show no forehead whatever The slope from the frontal bone to the back of ot the head is more p po p-o- o- o than that in the famous zelle of the Neanderthal man who is asserted to have lived in Europe more than years ago The upper Jaw lunges from be- be At the top is the tha f whence the aboriginal Americans living J perhaps years a ago a 0 were exhumed the other day at Santa 1 Barbara Cal CaU and at the bottom is the giant skull of the Santa f Barbara man himself neath the nose at an an angle seen Been to today today today to- to day only in the apes But the teeth flat and square like those of ot a a. cow prove their owners humans thou though h far r down clown the transitional scale ac according according according ac- ac cording to Harrington NOT APES The Santa Barbara pair were short and squat presumably feedIng feeding feeding feed feed- Ing largely on s seeds eds and herbs that needed d vigorous grinding Implements and crude weapons found near the bones were similar to those Identified with the old Stone or Paleolithic Age In Europe The size and contour of the skulls says cays Harrington Indicate that they antedate the Neanderthal man It is certain they are not nol those of American Indians Nor are they apes PRECARIOUS LIVES They come somewhere between tb two The Tho Santa Barbara skull is that of ot a a. a. a UnIt link ap apparently apparently ap ap- between the father of ot the American Indian and the early humans humans humans hu hu- huI I mans of tho Europeans continent for which scientists have long been I searching The life of ot Mr and Mrs Barbar Barbar- was the the- precarious existence of ot Stone Age folk in the red dawn of ot the race Prowling the coastal benches with them were fierce tierce car- car notably the tooth saber-tooth ti tiger tiger tiger ti- ti ger who also left his remains In the La Brae tar pits near Los An An- geles Over the eastern horizon hung the fiery tiery glow of volcanoes Even in those days southern California as ns its boosters might boast was nice and warm while much of ot the world was shivering In glacial rigor But the tho climate which nurtured Its Us early humans also brought bordes border of ot predatory beasts A man had to be thick d to survive Haled forth from beneath their tombstone of ot n reef rock these of ot remote time will compel a modification of ot H H. G. G Wells Wells' assertion in his Outline that Man w was s full fully man when he entered America The old world was the nursery of the of ot man man- kind For they are apparently as valid ethnological foundation as the fragmentary fragmentary frag frag- evidence from which prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic life lite in Europe has been pre pre-I projected