Show prehistoric man mati traced race d b by T teeth active when mediterranean was two inland lake lakes 1 1 1 i 1 I itt try ry atif I 1 allx afi at 1 I 1 k I 1 I 1 rot I 1 rl gl t 11 I 1 in 1 arlhur arthur 1 kilili ith ibero mere ere 1 f it flito or of roll roamn lit p with ith not it I 1 r f it WB am toolate ith tile d invin if f Iber lork 11 II inn alln 61 ry dip 1 i 1 t nc rill a great 1 1 r I 1 it 1 l 11 k which in n the 1 I 01 1 I if of t it I 1 q no near the like katiff rn e rne of miltn tit anti HI lit out 1 he I aills 11 fr it 11 Nul ah tin till ellei tile lie linden morning I 1 pat tio or it 19 a rit at ling our fr fett from its yn rn tramp on oil tip it rn it to iti its most dis dl ant re hut it IN i ie flor floor which I 1 18 tit alu cl arf center if f interest for rc lux apy they hope to ind find in the strata on ila fl floor r froni front eight tw feet to 1 in boull of to ito finito when hen malta wae as inn jar of it tc tie land which dined italy to tunia aal an 1 lavt lel tho tile if franf fill into N two 0 inland lakes neanderthal teeth found mint flax road lint o arly man of flip the for line cl disappeared froin lur pe I 1 ng o 0 lit fore the ice lee ae age lin ila I 1 this thi tiny and fly 1 force or hy by hin oun frie alii did enter ghar glair dain ni mur ili i r to come out again only two NO f his teeth have I 1 teen een found tut lut they are tire amply lelent for ills his recognition they are fossil lied to the ame same degree ai as the bones of extinct 1 of elephant die pliant and hit popo tamus rimu aich lay elde tilde by side with them in the red cave earth earm in no race mee of men have euch such teeth ever been been except in the neanderthal dee ciel how discovery DIt covery wa was md made the discovery was wa made in theme circumstances jutt just before the wr war broke out the british ass association 0 elation on un dercook to explore the an of malta particularly those of abar dalam the actual work fell chiefly on dr 0 dermott Deti pott curator of the hat nat ural history Ill story museum in to malta in the autumn of 1017 he be spent bis his holiday digging a trench across the floor of the cave feet from lie its entrance it ft as this trench which revealed the remarkable molars just mentioned both lay in lie the red cave earth one two and a half feet below the surface the other three and a halt half feet before gibraltar was aas the only place in south europe which had yielded the fossil remains of this peculiar pecullar species of man I 1 abely thanks to the interest which prof T rector of the uni ert alty of malta takes in matters ing to prehistoric man all the teeth found by doctor descott in ghar dal am were sent to the royal college of surgeons in order that they might be om compared pared examined and described the result of this examination has ha been to convince sir arthur keith that no mistake has been made the molar teeth are those of neanderthal man teeth an important link with the teeth there came froni from malta a detailed survey of ghar dal am and of the strata of its floor prepare pr e I 1 hy by sir mr george sinclair 31 1 I C E III ills I 1 lans and levels threw a new light on the age of the strata in the be cave floor and of the fossil remal remains ns including the neanderthal molar molars which were found in them it became thus possible to connect the deposit deposits in this great maltese cae cane with the fa ones of grimaldi on the riviera bear near mentone where the bones and culture of paleolithic man occur in tuch such abundance in the floor of the abar dalam there are the remains of the old sea beach a bone brec breccia cla made of rolled pebbles and rolled pieces of the boull 1 ties if f three extinct species of tie rill annl I 1 of tuo no of hip Popo ancient hunter hunters used cave how did the bone bones of multi audes of elephants and anti of hippopotami become collected in III such number in dalam ghar dalam as sir mr sin gin cibir boa pointed out offered oT erol ancient hunters ideal conditions for trapping an I 1 arli en droles g and herds of wild genstil the bay maren aa nov no v a part of the suit sen une uns in the day lays of the inter continental land a R hallow shallow fresh water inter inke lake juit just the place tn t at tract droves of elephant elp and hippopotamus up from that lake take went the natural road to the plateau beyond the anine on the eastern bide side of which the entrance to the cave opened wild beasts driven up his thin defile until they reached the mouth of the cave could have been beaded by paleolithic hunt ere ers toward the mouth of f the rave cave aico within the cave one can still till imagine tile stampede taro pede and bo the bloody slaughter of tho the put fo forward rard to explain the tint vast tion of remain remains of elephant and hippo mamas in the floor of ghar dalam 1 tile tie invocation catlon of paleolithic hunter gives 1 what teem seems to be the bot best possible po solution |