Show paleolithic ral eolithic skull Js Is years old ANTA BARBARA GAL CAL proof S SANTA that paleolithic man mail lived on the southern california coast nt at least years ago Is afforded by excavations of humon humin rent remains ains near santa Barl barbara iara in the belief of dr J P harrington head of a party of smithsonian institution investigators which made the mid find doctor harrington said the discoveries ies proved theories formerly held by scientists a to be incorrect by nt at least years and possibly more that tho the santa barbara man was fin inhabitant ot of the pacific coast at the same earne time it if not earlier than the neanderthal man Is established according to doctor harrington by a number of features odthe of the skulls found here chief of these Is tile tho thickness of the skulls the almost bovine characteristics acte of the teeth and tile the con st ruction of upper find and lower jaws which resembles that evident in the lower order tile the skull of the santa barbara man possesses a n pronounced supra orbital ridge without depression between tile the eyes the discovery of the skulls he said 1 will bring about a complete revision of at the theory that flint primitive man original ly camo came to north america from asia via the bering strait about 1000 years ngo ago and gradually worked south tho the discovery of the santa barbara man according to doctor establishes the fact that tant california fel the tread of man years earlier first indications that the d discovery was of tremendous scientific importance lay in the position of the two skeletons found these were resting stretched out full length in contrast with the remains of litter later Indi indians tins usually found burled in crouching or kneeling positions the presence of the skulls and accompanying compa nying eoliths at the level in which they were found Is attributed by doctor harrington to the fact that tit nt intervals of several centuries in tile the pacific ocean changed its level find and nt at several periods in remote orns eras covered tile site of burton binton bin ton mound and spread far inland receding as disturbances tur bances f from born tile the inside changed tile the contour of tile the earths eart liy crust |