Show science ciance to seek eek S first irs 1 I t american A m dead alaskan villages village s will be explored by the hrdlicka party Washington locked among the frozen stretches of alaska nrc at e deep secrets concerning the origin of 0 man on oil this continent with dr ales alca curator of anthropology of the national museum at its hend nn expedition has set out from the smithsonian institution for alaska to seek clews to the perplexing problem whence did the first americans como come many centuries before columbus was born this hemisphere wits was populated the indians were scattered over ever both continents of the western world and the outlying habitable islands there were then rind are now in alaska and all along the const coast of northern canada short pudgy folk whom we have pome come to know ns as eskimos at the tip of south america there were savages of clait stature la in the mississippi valley there lived other tribes who existed hy by farming and who established their villages linges vi on enormous mounds aud and their tf inkles on still greater mounds simper like serpents along the potomac tine nud nut other eastern rivers the there re were skilled hunters who grew corn and benna beans and on the florida coast were others who iho subsisted largely on fish nod and oy oysters stera and left behind them great pates of empty shells in n mexico central america ecuador 11 and peru there were highly developed civilizations large cities hullt built of i stone and populations whose tance with the one fine abts rivaled that of ancient areece racial kinship seen do doctor clor believes bellev ps that hat all of these peoples were descendants of enily carly immigrants froni from asia flint they ill all were probably if 0 the same saine yel 1 low brown racial stock though of dlf dit ferent ferek tribes and even different tit na alons the some stock is held to be widely distributed in ot bt L hina china tibet eibl A japan and siberia to this day its representatives may have dribbled slowly into america from asia and mude made their wy wity to in land jand sections and to the jungles of what Is now south america many scientists agree that flint in asia there are ninny many types resembling american indians not nil all of these scientists however are ready to agree with doctor hrdlicka that this fact points to the conclusion that the origin of man on this continent ma may y be explained by asiatic migration wath the aid of human remains rem pottery fragments weapons ve apons find and relies relics of early settlements doctor Urd hrdlicka licka hopes to obtain conclusive evidence to support the theory if the first americans came here via the bering sea he thinks they must have left traces of that movement dead villages on an yukon along the yukong picturesque shores the eskimos and indians have lived for uncounted genera generations t I 1 ins the former in the lower valley the latter in the upper tipper the first immigrants from asia are thought to have placed their habitations in the same region along the stream down to the hats flats nt at its mouth there are traces of numerous dead villages vU lages found on and in the banks of the river they show reI of pit dwellings an yield atone implements bones of it uni mals fragments ments of crude pottery and now und find then ithen articles regarded by doctor us is of asia tie derti derl aluman skeletons anve olbo also been found just how long the yukon basin tins has been inhabited may inny be revealed by excavation nearly nil all the truces cruces of human found so farlin have ve beedon be been enon on the lower level of of the yukon the luts flats sire are constantly being cut away anway to ID some parts and built up tit ID others by notion action odthe river it Is almost impossible to know where the hunks banks wore were several years hgo ago an added difficulty confronting the selo mists la Is the lie problem of excava ton tion two or three feet below the surface the ground Is 18 frozen to unknown depths Spec special lal to melt the ground must be a slow rind tedious process hut but no metter how painstaking the task it will be eminently worthwhile it these lend sites reveal the relies relics for which science I 1 searching skeletal reni particularly will revalued he valued for the light they may throw un the origin of anun in america the asiatic differs from the european not only in outward a ap P pea nince hut but in the shape of his skull his facial angles and the for matlou of hips alp find and legs obviously then if the bones found in thase early graves in alaska conform to they u will be proof of th tb p asiatic origin scouts bridge theory the existence ot of a so culled called land bridge between and asia in ancient times Is argued by some soine scientists asan explanation of how man arst arrived in america from asia doctor boctor scouts the theory A land hind bridge he says was vas wholly un primitive boats anle of the skins of on animals linnis such euch as are still used by some ome aliskan natives would have beet been he says sulli clent to crosie cross the bering sea the crossing from asia to america by the early curly immigrants was easy natural and inevitable doctor fird licka explains less than 40 tulles separate the two continents at bering strait but the undoubtedly had boats and there was nothing to prevent them from crossing bering sea by way of st lawrence island much aluch further to the south was the long chain of the aleutian islands which reaches to within miles of the shore even that distance being cut in halt half by the commander islands but it if it Is so easy to set get from asia to america why was it not equally easy to get from Ant america erlea to alln why run call it not ho he wed argued alint me lie of indians and 41 nd spine be explained by american n migration ilgra io asia the answer ja s human renu re tins tens of of years old hauw aven found tn tit asia no eager A american merl scientist lint har ever found tiny nav re linins more than verni years old at al the atie anost on ion tills this continent |