| Show 211151IT11F JUAN At n meeting of the mlllh Association Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science f I I held at Aberdeen In ISM the position was taken by Sir Charles Iscll the eminent geologist that the existence I I of man dated back thousands of joarn ea rller than tiny or the cnnhlon or the dy had placed the commncment at This statement he based on dig coverlea made In the valley of the I SalOme allowing the coxllene oC j I man with extinct animals such ns the 11 wooly rhinoceros and the mmmoth i I U belonging to the quaternary fauna i This association has n yearly meetIng meet-Ing a t which It elects a new president 4 The latest event of the kind was at I Toronto on tho 18th Sir Jbhn Mans It r belDI chosen ns the head or the sort ely lie to I reeozed ns one or the I I most distinguished archaeologists ol I 1 the age Ills speech on this occasion Is I said to love been devoted to showing I show-ing the Importance of archaeology and Its connection with other sciences Much ns astrationly giolngy and plont010gy and to is statement or I the pient condition of nctu1 knowl I edge and Ms own theories regarding t regard-ing early man A special Interest attached I at-tached to his views on the subject as t he wa one or the English ftrehoolo Elsts who Investigated the gravels ot the Somme and confirmed the dlsro cries or other eminent mn Tb tits I tlnrUon between RIeollthlo cold I neolltlilo civilization the earlier and the later Btono ages had been made by I Sir John Lubbock Sir John Evans I confined his discussion almost ex llulvely to nleolllbio mn the race I that used stone Implements In their rudest form 1110 nol1lhlo mn ot a 11 far later period ground and polished I I Ids stone Implement and capons 1lneoUthlo mn was n cotempurry of extinct and ncolllhlc man of living anImal Thorocaler fslanim Mac Ilift Ile Ctnnlng of the human race van Intern In-tern Asia In a climate ivhero 2 I means 4f subsistence mere esl1y no cesslblc In this region our ancestor I ances-tor developed from a lowly origin and liy season of his lurroundlngs and necessities acquired a taste and talent for hunting also the means for des I troylne wild end destructive animals which It Is fair to assume were more numerous then than they have been of later years At time wore on the frame became scarcer the area occupied oc-cupied by man ns his exclusive habitation I habi-tation of course broadened rind he be ltIT = I gan to Resume it more normal cimrac ter Kventunlly the branchingout process I pro-cess beganthe moment follow ing that of tho sun eventuating the population of western Europe The lecturer does not attempt to say even 10 conjcture the lenglh of time Involved In-volved In all this but It must have been very great lie then goes onto on-to how that the process roil not have bn reversed the origin begin nlng In a cold climate where clothing wa necessary md gradually finding I Its iNay to a warm one hre cover I Ing for tho body was not IndlIen table I Sir John Evans holds that the Mage Dr human development denoted by thou tho-u ot Ialollthl Implements must have extended over a Vast fit rlod of time If we IIIIM to allow for ho migration of the primeval l hunt from their original home I whernvet It I I may have been in Asia ir Africa to I the west or Europe Iurln this mi rllon the forms or the neallons and tools mad from silk lout utoiiMi had as become ns It were stereo pid unit luting the subsequent period Implied by the erosion of the valleys the tried Icatlons In the form of the Implement I mlithis thnge III the fauna noel led with the men vl 10 used them were but alight And no on from age to tire each cpo h being mdMvetl by some new horrlII Indlmtlve nf thn I low groxth and d elolmnt of train 4 i I ower n ox m1I0d 10 Improved I is ndlwort and beltr cuomm I I It 10 U In it btru uhJ t and Sir f i 10hp Inotl ularlY admit3 t t Imagl 1 fallen must be drawn tlpon 10 Maine I Latent its an RId to arull oarel 1 I In exploring n field ro remote and l so I Hot It h I quite a reasmaole proposition proposi-tion that without guesswork progresso progress-o auld toe rininfuly slow and conclusions drearily unsatisfactory while with ll I nothing reaches the plane of cer tnty ur accuracy |
