Show fossils proof of antiquity of man the most ancient being known which can he be called man was discovered in java it was Im bedded in a stra stratum turn containing fossil plants and animals of at least a halt half million years ago this being called pithecanthropus canth er erect ectus ua had a small head with huge ridges over the eyes its teeth were much like jobse ot of today and it walked erect next in age are the remains of 11 individuals discovered deeply burled buried in a cave near neiping Pei ping china these thesa P people eople were much like the java jaa wan man but were somewhat more ad advanced vanceL clao the asso associated e animal bones indicate a period only a little later near heidelberg IId delberg in germany a human jaw was found during commercial excavations the stratum in which it lay was deposited in the second interglacial epoch probably years ago the jaw la Is huge it has no chin but the teeth are human another find of about the same fame age ace was waa made near mit down sussex england and consists ofa of a very simple skull combined with a jaw which resembles that of a chimpanzee fifty thousand years ago a people called neanderthal were living in the eaves caves of europe they were distinctly human but in many ways resembled the anthropoid apes they had long low heads projecting faces and walked in a semi erect position about years bears ago they were displaced by newcomers the cro SI magnon aRnon a people much like modern europeans Kuro |