Show jk is affo W old 0 3 IWO APIL 4 ha U I 1 do ahey mars dumaw of the am period by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN FADES are trump trumps these day all over the world white men are digging they are not searching for pirates treasure or top native gold they are dig ging for information about the age of the world about the age of man about the evolution of the human race they want to know where the earliest in habitant habitants of america came from and when he arrived they are trying to find and the cradle of the human race mee they are hopeful of uncovering the missing link they are anxious to know how far back recorded history goes gnes information wanted might be a sign on every camp of diggers science wants to know let the dig gere gers find the material and science Is hopeful of reading it astonishing finds ends are reported at fit frequent intervals from all over the globe some of these finds throw a monkey wrench into accepted eclen theories all of a sudden everything Is upset and the archaeologists paleontologists anthropologists eth and all the rest of the scientists have to reconstruct their the orles ories and find go to digging more indus tri trion sly than ever the santa barbara skulls appear to have had more or less of this monkey mo rikey wench wrench effect these skulls are supposed to be those of paleolithic man which Is to say of man of an age of early stone implements this would make these skull very very old it Is thought they were found in strata et tt least sa years old and that completely upsets the apple cart so far as previous theories of the age of the first families of america are concerned these skulls were dug up by dr I 1 p harrington of ot the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution lie ile found them in burton bound a email small hillock billock about soo feet ft back from the ocean beach near santa barbara calif he ile tentatively identified them ai as neanderthal or cro Ma magnon grion whereupon all the scientific world formed ossed its attention temporarily at least upon santa barbara immediately the words santa barbara man mar were born why not we have the neanderthal man mm the plit down man and the heidelberg man to say nothing of the java nan man pithecanthropus er ectus possibly older than any of hem and if it this santa barbara man should prove oldest of it the lot his name will lend lead all the rest rt until ome some older man Is dug up the cliff dwellings in tit mesa verde national park and in everal several national monuments in the southwest are relics of a prehistoric race whose origin and end are unknown this race apparently its it cliff dwellings about year years ago jeese jim nusbaum superintendent of ala verde has recently unearthed pottery and artificial reservoir reservoirs be lieven to belong to a much older civi illation than that of the cliff dwellers these may date back to 1000 IL C or even een to an earlier time dr 0 A turney fellow of the royal geographic society has recent ly found near humboldt ariz two human skeletons which he think thinks are those of men older than any race in the southwest the mayas of yucatan Tu catan the azteca of mexico and the incas of peru were old old civilizations but if professor harrington a tenta live tive identification of the santa barbara man as neanderthal or cro magnon stands up under investigation Invest ign why any other american finds ends are young indeed by comparison for the cro magnon people succeeded the ers as matters masters of europe 25 year years aeo ago or even earlier professor harrington however has been led to think by further investigation that hie his first tentative estimate will not stand lie he believes now that the owners of the skulls roamed the coast of california at a period probably 8 years ago characteristics not possessed by the neanderthal and cro magnon men have hate been found in the skulls of the barbara man after closer study doctor harrington said scientists who flocked to santa barbara confirm doctor statement however that the skulls do form a connecting link between the modern indian and his original dinces tor ter in north america the bones and the strata of earth in which they were imbedded are of a type not known before to scientists to determine more definitely the ape age of the geological formation in which the skulls were found a topographical survey of barton mound has been made by a smithsonian survey party to determine the original level of the ancient indian settlement A new shaft was then sunk to bed rock samples of the composition of each stra stratum turn were taken and forwarded to the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution for tests by geologists there Where bere was the cradle of the human race mee by what peoples was america originally settled very interesting Inter erting questions which make this digging of the scientists one of the most fasca dating of pursuits the third asiatic expedition under the auspices of tha th american museum of natural history and asia has recently returned with nine tons of important fossils this expedit expedition iod was as primarily investigating the dee des erts of mongolia with the belief that there would be found proof that it was the cradle of the human race roy shipman andrews leader of the expedition Is convinced hat that further exploration of this region will confirm the theory he ile says we are confident that there are formations in that country which will reveal the secret of man s earliest origin and these forma format lAns we expect to uncover when we ue go inan int the region again ue e have found no direct evidence yet nn an human evolution but we have indirect indications tending to prove that central asia was the cradle of the human race and our search mil be continued to find the fossil remains of the ancestral form forms of man a the nino nine ton tons of fossils include nde five dinosaur aggs the first ever disco pred skulls in nil till stages uti ic of do de to fol ment of this Is a forin tn in ito ile frilled fril ltd lil horned dinoi nura of Ain trica the eggs a an erm thir this r rutilo I 1 A skull of the largest flix hinting cpr pr knon n grant henn like anglinni ni out firt act lone long walli i I 1 I 1 h n jn jaw w PI and of nebout I 1 two 0 feet ito to the of the uinta mountains mount nine in utah ludve bhuli of if Tilano thires an e extinct family of huge beasts first die di covered in south dakota one complete skeleton and parts ol 01 other skeletons and skulls of broses similar to those of eastern nebraska according to mr andrew andrews the entire mam mammalian mallan fauna of this period 11 ll practically identical with that which ranged through utah wyoming and south dakota in the middle of the age of mammals except for camels which are found only in america and to for horses which appear to have been more abundant in america than la in asia at that time to geologists these fossils fossil constitute colv convincing inching proof of a close clos land con lection between mongolia and the rocky mountains in the early age ol 01 mammals so the theory that america was peopled from asia seems reasonable enough to mr average man provided ded the asiatic man antedated the american man when we thle whites discovered america less than five give hundred years ag age they found foun the inhabitants of the east rude and warlike subsisting largely by the chase scourged co urged by periodic famine and low in the scale of political organization the most effen organized were the iroquois relatively newcomers newcom era to central rew rev york but in the southwest more civilized tribes of agriculturists herdsmen and weavers lived in nettled settled towns with close knit community organization some of them occupied huge pueblos still further south in the heart beart of mexico cortez found in the aztec an even more advanced civilization they had temples and priests kings and slaves arts and architecture an aristocracy to cracy a confederacy of states and a regular descent tor for the crown even more suggestive surg estive of an ancient old world civilization like that ot of egypt was the inca kingdom conquered by pizarro and his followers on the west coast of south america in what Is 1 now per pem and ecuador the era usually assigned to the cro magnona in europe Is from to M jears years ago am it Is believed that they entered europe from the cast east from asia Is it stretching things to assume that the cro magnon migration divided di tided one branch going west to america 1 incidentally these cro magnona were presentable folk nith well shaped heads equal in cranial capacity to our own henry fairfield osborn the noted american paleontologist SAJI says of them so far as the mental power of these men Is revealed by their brain structure they were quite capable c of higher education I 1 |