Show REMAINS REMAINS' TURN TURNOUT OUT SOMETIMES TO BE QUITE MODERN Tho he determination of or tho the a age ase o of ot tho the I remains found on the earliest human interest J A American continent Is of oC great Until a a. few years cars care ago aso North Nort 1 America was I supposed to offer the mo most t valuable evi evl- evidence deuce dence In this regard though the bureau of American ethnology d declared In 1307 1907 inthe in inthe light that no specimen had come comA to the northern continent which v from the tho represented represented rep rep- standpoint of oC physical anthropology resented other than relatively relative y modern modernly man At that time somo some apparently apparently ly epoch making discoveries discoveries were cre reported Brazed from Crom the tho l Lagoa aJO anta Santa caves o of BrazIl Bra to together with um 1 numerous roUs finds of or l bones ones and antI cultural o objects In lu Argentina As a n result the attention of oC the world worM was Attracted to these places and there hero of Atlantis was a renewal of oC tho the stor story rata descent of or the human race the orl origin ln and anthropoid anthro- anthro traced from very primitive e ane poid forms of or South America Moro 1 re recently ro- ro has reverted to North Korth interest human America from the discovery discovery of lm h l n nr r remains In an nn asphalt deposit at It Rancho nancho ho La Brea Breo In hr southern California A preliminary pro pre ro- ro report on these was read reM before the he museum of history science and art artof artof of Los Angeles Juno 11 11 I 1914 H by John C. C Merriam Tho Time bureau of American ethnology was eras wasso asso so much interested In tho rho South American Amen Ameri can ca'n finds 5 that t two o experts were tent sent to conduct an Impartial Investigation The conclusion lon i aa that tho rho human remains from thy the J Lagoa Santa caves cs cannot be accepted without further and more con- con o proofs an WJ belonging to a a. race raco with the tho which which lived e contemporaneously extinct species of or animals found In Sn the same caves A similar unfavorable conclusion conclusion conclusion con con- was reached regarding the antiquity an an- In- In of the skull taken ken from tho tiro harbor of Buenos Ayres The specimen was taken talen from tho the oozy bed be of the river rl when tho the workmen v were cro e excavating forthe forthe for forthe the dr dry dock at Buenos A Ayres Ares In geologic a age e according to Professor Ameghino who wrote about It It It was s u a remnant from the low Jow lower r Pliocene and w was s solder older than the famous Neanderthal 51 skull ulI Careful examination however failed to reveal rc an any evidence which would Justify Its cla classification AS ns as a representative of oC a species of or ancient primates forerunners of the human being Every cry feature shows It to bo biJ a portion of the tho skull of man Itself It bears no evidence oven even of loaning having belonged to an In early earl or orph orph ph I t pr prImitive man but to a well developed de and physically modern like Individual in individual In- In The rhe conclusion of or tIll thin report Is that thai t while It is Is not nut po possible sl Je to give e a n definite estimate of or the n ARC age c of the tho skeleton ton found It belongs belonS's to modern period It does not necessarily belong to the tho present historical period but cannot be considered as lS having havIn antedated It by many thousands of ot years cars Merriam l considers considers considers con con- siders It well worth exhaustive o scientific Investigation In and the last wor word on tho the subject cannot be written until a great t deal more study stud has been given n the objects objects objects ob ob- foun found The Tho associations are arc with 15 specimens distinctly later in age than the tho typical Rancho nancho La Brea fauna which como come from a n very Yen old geologic period According to Dr A A. L. L Kroe Kroeger cr the racial characteristics do not differ dieter decidedly from those of or persons whoso whose remains have havo been excavated in moun mounds R on Santa Rosa Rosl Island off the tho coast of or southern California While the question of ot antiquity is undecided undecided un un- un- un decided every e evidence which wo we have h says tho the Journal of or tho the American l Medical Association Ass would seem to point In North as well as ns South America to tho the comparatively comparatively com com- recent origin or occurrence geologically speaKIng of ot man marl man manon on our con con con- |