Show Prehistoric Man Traced by Teeth Active When Mediterranean Was Two Inland Lakes London In In tho the story unfolded a athe at atthe atthe t the no Royal al Anthropological Institute r recently recently re re- e te by Sir Arthur Keith there were touches of a tale talc of romance with no noa not nota t a little lIttIe of ot the mystery we associate with the doings of ot Sherlock Holmes The story chiefly concerned a great cave cave Ghar Ghar Dalam Dalam which which opens o othe on n the side of ot a ravine near the southeastern southeastern southeastern south south- eastern corner of ot Malta and about five miles from Valetta writes the London Morning Post The cave Is a vast rambling place place- place place- measuring over feet teet from Its entrance entrance entrance en en- trance on the ravine to Its most distant dIstant distant dis dIs- tant recesses But It Is the floor which Is the chief center of Interest for archeologIsts they hope to find In the strata on Its floor varying floor varying from eight feet to eighteen feet In depth depth fossil fossil records of the time when Malta was part of ot the land bridge which Joined Italy to Tunis and divided the Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Medi- Into two Inland lakes Neanderthal Teeth Found The event has proved that earlyman early earlyman earlyman man of the Neanderthal type type- type the the forbidding forbidding for tor- bidding species which disappeared from Europe long before the Ice Age ended had ended had passed this way and by force or by his Ills own free will did enter Ghar Dalam never to come out again Only two of his molar teeth have been found foun but they are amply sufficient for his recognition they recognItion they are fossilized fossilized fossil fossil- to the same degree as the bones of ot extinct species of ot elephant and hippopotamus hippopotamus hippopotamus hip hip- which lay side by side with them in the red cave earth In no norace norace norace race of ot men have such teeth ever been seen except In the Neanderthal cies How Discovery Was Made The discovery was made In these circumstances Just before the war broke out the British association undertook undertook undertook un un- to explore the antiquities of ot Malta particularly Malta particularly those of ot Ghar Char Dalam The actual work fell feIl chiefly on Dr G. G curator of ot the Natural Natural Natural Nat Nat- ural History museum In Malta In the autumn of ot 1917 1017 he spent his holiday digging a trench across the floor of ot the cave feet from Its entrance It was thIs tills trench which revealed the remarkable molars Just mentioned both lay in the red cave earth one two and a half halt feet below the surface the other three and a half halt feet Before Detore Gibraltar was the only place In south Europe which had bad yielded the fossil remains of ot this peculiar species of man Lately thanks to the Interest which I Prof Proto T. T rector of ot the University I sity alty of Malta takes In matters reintIng relating relating reint- reint I ing to prehistoric man all aU the teeth found foun by Doctor In Ghar Char Dalam Dalam Dalam Dal Dal- am were sent to I tile the Royal College of ot Surgeons In order ordel that they might be compared compare d and described The result of ot this examination has been to convince i Sr r I Arthur Keith that no mistake has b j n made the molar teeth are those of man Teeth an Important Link With the teeth there came come from Malta a detailed survey suney of Ghar Dalam Dalam Dalam Dal Dal- am nn and of ot the strata of ot Its floor prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared by Mr George Sinclair M. M I. I C. C E. E His plans and levels threw throw a new light on the age of the strata In the cave floor and of ot the fossil remains Including the Neanderthal molars which were found In them It became thus possible to connect the deposits In this great Maltese cave with the famous fa- fa famous fa ta- ones of GrImaldI on the Riviera I Inear near Mentone where the tho bones and and I culture of at paleolithic man occur In I such abundance In the floor of the Ghar Char Dalam there are the remains of ot the old sea beach beacha n a a bone breccia made of rolled pebbles pebbles pebbles peb peb- bles and roll rolled d pieces of the fossil bones of three extinct species of elephant elephant elephant ele ele- and of two of ot hippopotamus Ancient Hunters Used Cave How did the bones of these multi multi- multitudes tudes tulles of ot elephants and of at hippopotami become collected In such number In Ghar Dalam Ghar Dalam as Mr Sinclair Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair has pointed out offered ancient hunters Ideal conditions for trapping and driven droves and herds of wild beasts The neighboring bay now Marsa Marsa now a part of ot the tho thes thos silt s lt sea was sea was In the days of the IntercontInental intercontinental intercontinental inter Inter- continental land bridge a n shallow water fresh-water lake lake just Just the place to attract attract attract at at- tract droves of ot elephant and hippo hippo- Up from that lake went the natural road to the plateau beyond the ravine on the eastern side of ot which the entrance to the cave opened Wild beasts driven up this defile until they reached the mouth of the cave could have been headed by paleolithic hunt hunt- ers ems toward the mouth of the cave Once within the cave one can still stir Imagine the stampede and the blood bloody slaughter Of Ot the suppositions put pu forward to explain the tho vast accumulation tion of at remains of ot elephant and hippopotamus hippo hipp In tho the floor of ot Ghar Char Dalam Dala the Invocation of ot paleolithic hunters hunton gives what seems to be the best p possIble possible pos pos- sible solution t |