Show SCIENCE SEEKS f dead alaskan villages to be explored by the hrdlicka party kashla washington ton louled Lot 1 led among the froien frozen stretches of abaft are tire deep secrets concerning concern inc V te e origin lit loan tean in tills conlin nt nt nith b dr ales of anthropology of the tile Nation athal at lal til museum at ita its head an e has hall sit ft out from the institution ution for alaa to iek clew clews to the per problem I hence did tb tho first ans tomell doroe io roe many blany centuries kotore columbus was born this was populated lie 11 e indians were scull ered both contin rits of the iorli and the habitable babl table islands there were ere tren and are now in alaska slid oil all along the coast of northern canada anada short mort pud audey y folk whom e have come to inow as eskimos at the tie tio of south america there were savages if of giant stature lo 10 the MI i alley lived fired other tribes wro existed by farming and who established their il lages on enormous mounds and their temples on stil still greater mounds shaped like eer ser penta along the Vot and other datert rivers there ft nere ere skilled shifted huntsm who vrho grew corn and beans and on tn the tile florida co coitt mere other others wio subsisted on fish and oters and left behin I 1 them great reat piles plies ot of empty shells in mexico dentral ral america chull dor and peru tepra were highly de cloried clil aar large cities bult built of 0 sauie stuie atu btu e and populate po n u lose i acqua Intone fill the tile fine one arts that of ancient greece radii racial kinship sew doctor fird licka belles bell bel cies lees hat that all of these peoples were ere descendants of early immig immigrants rants from ash asil that they all were probably of sam same e yellow brown browa racial stock 11 of different tribes and even een of dif ferent nation nations tho same stock Is held to be widely distributed in some of china tibet rift to this hy illy its represent athes may have drib bled slowly into america from asia arid ard made their to inland sections and to the tile jungles of whai what la is now south america many scientists agree that in asia there are many types resembling sem bling american indian indians not ot all of these scientists ho however eer are ready to agree avee with doctor that this fact points to the con elusion that the origin of ot man on tills continent may i be explained by asiatic migration alth kith the tile aid old of human remains pottery fragments n capons and rel acs ca of early settlements doctor hrdlicka hope hopes to obtain ale he eil evidence dence to support tile theory if the lift arst americans cime cirne here ila la the bering sea he thinks they raut have left traces of that movement dead I 1 village villages on yukon along the picturesque shores the tile eskimos and indians baie aae lived for uncounted genera Ions the fonner in the ower lower val ral ley ey tie tle latter in the me rhe first from asip sf ore are thought bought to have placed their habitations in the earne region along the tile stream down to the flati flats at its mouth there are traces of turner ous dead pillages Til vIl lages laZeS bound oa on and in the banks of he the river they the chow remains of pit dwellings and beld stone implements bones of animals fragments of rude crude pottery and now and then articles re repin gardeI led hy by doctor as of asiatic derivation human skeletons have also been found just how long th yukon basin has been inhabited way m ay iy be joealed by excavation nearly all the of laman uman habitation found go so far have tave been on the lower lel of the aalon olon the flats gals are tire constantly being cut clit away way in some parts and built up la in others by action of the river it Is almost impossible to know here the banks vere were several thou elm mria years ago an added dM difficulty culty co confronting the scientists Is the pro problem b lem ol 01 excavation two or three feet below the surface the I 1 ground round Is frozen to un unknown knova depths special t to 0 melt tho th ground must be a applied a slow 10 lo and tedious procesa process but no DO matter how painstaking the tak task it will be bil eminently worth walli if these neav sites revell the relics for which science Is 11 eager ly marching searching skeletal remains particularly will bo be valued for the light they may throw on the origin of maa man in america the asiatic differ differt from the tile european Kur Nur not only la in appearance but la in the shape of bis his lull his facial angles andes and the formation of hips and lie obviously then if it the bones found in theae early grave graves tn in alaska conform lo 10 asiatic me denare boure they hey will be proof of the asiatic origin scout scouts bridge theory the existence erl stence of 0 a so called calleI langbridge land bridge between alaska and ani asia tn in ancient ancl nt times Is argued by 1 y as an explanation of othow bow man first ed in amerlyn from asia doctor scouts llie the theory A laud bridge he says was wholly unnecessary PrIm Ithe boats untie mide of skins of animals such ns AS are still used by some alas kaa kari natives would have been he toya sufficient suM clent to cross the bering sea tile crossing from asia to america by the early was easy natural and inevitable Ineil table doctor explains less than 40 miles separate the two tuo continents at bering stroll but the Asta tIts undoubtedly had find boats and there ft a nothing not liing to prevent them from crossing bering sea by way of st SL lawrence faivre ee island much nuch farther to the south was ins the tile ion chain ot of the tile islands which reaches to within w U miles of at the tile hani chatlan shore even that distance being cut in to half halt by he the commander Is landi cut but if it was koency so to get from asia to america wily was it nt ut equally easy to get from froin amerlia to asla sla 1 by can con it not ant be ile I 1 ilat lie tile similarity of indelas ani 1 afif anne tile may be explained by Amer lall migration to asia the answer Is simple human remal remains til ten of thousand thoum nili of beirs old hate have been found in n asia no eager amer lean icon has cw eer fauni any remains more than tevera several 1 thou sand band years old nt lit the mol moat on this |