Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 24 | Scientists May Prove Gobil Desert to Have Been Garden of Eden and Home of Man 1,500,000 Years Ago

Scientists May Prove Gobi Desert Dese t tTo To Have Hav Been Garden en of Eden and mId Home of Man Iran 1 Years Ago 0 I 1 e MONGOLIA JA rj a. a c VAST TAST A a aC It C t i r TIBET r C K H 1 f NA A SA r oil rL J 1111 U t x A b ba d d J a I R Ray Chapman Andrews top right leader of zoologist expedition into I Gobi desert in search of man Walter Granger preparing I E fossils for fop shipment vf T YORK nT ir nM Dec 1 1 We W We tVA all n may mav vf T YORK nT ir nM Dec 1 1 We W We tVA all n may mav NEW maybe maybe maybe be older than we think for skeletons skeletons I tons of humans who lived more i ithan than million years ago are expected to be br found when scientists return to their digging In tho the Gobi desert In Mongolia next year If It such skeletons are found expect to establish that the present waste land of ot the Gobi desert desert desert des des- ert once was the mankind the Garden of Eden Dinosaur eggs believed to be bo ten million years old were found In the Gobi desert and recently brought into America by an expedition sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and Asia Magazine Maga Maga- Magazine zine and led by Roy Chapman An An- drews We confidently believe that we shall prove that tha t the first man lived In the Gobi desert which we will explore again next year year says An An- drews We W expect to prove that he came to America and Europe over I land bridges which have since been I submerged as we believe ants of the mammals whose fossils fossils fos fos- sils we have found crossed The oldest man of which scientists scientists scientists have found trace Is the Ape man supposed to have lived years ago If the expedition beaded headed by Andrews finds proof of ot the existence existence exIstence ex ex- of man a million years be beI before before be- be fore toro that present theories of ot evolution evolution evo o lution of ot man will have to be re re- re I It may still be proved that man descended from an ape but the ape man who existed years ears ago may have been a retrograde retrograde retrograde retro retro- grade branch of the human family As on the last expedition the caraan caravan car car- avian avan which Andrews will lead into the Mongolian hinterland a country COuntry country coun COun- try probably less explored and charted than any any other of modern times will be composed of ot camels guided by natives and motor trucks and cars driven by Yankees Andrews will be accompanied by Walter Vatter Granger chief paleontologist logist lo- lo gist of the last expedition Greater GreMer progress Is expected on the new venture through the experience i j gained on the last Men on the last I Journey Into the Mongolian plains sacrificed their clothing and used j i the hair of their camels to make 1 protective coverings for or the fossils j i they unearthed