Show prehistoric man traced teeth active when mediterranean was wa two inland lakes ld london I 1 in it tha story unfolded at the royal anthropological institute re dittly by sir arthur keith there them wore were touches of a tola tale of romance with not a little of the mystery we associate with the th doina of sherlock elmra th the story chiefly Cla concerned cerand a peat great cave ghr ghar Dalam which open on an the side aide of a ravine carlos near tits the southeastern corner of malta malik and about five allea ile from vedetta writes the london lend mat morning bag P port th the cave 1 la a vast rambling plem place measuring over ever TOO feet fact from its eo an trance francs on an the ravine to its most mast ds tant real enc luark but it 1 te the 11 floor 1 which inch la Is the chief center of interest inlets lor far archaeologists archeologists they hope to find and la 1 the strata arata on an it ita floor flon varying from eight feet to eighteen feet in depth records of the time when malta we was part of the lead land bridge which joined italy to tunis tom and divided the terrane a into two me inland lakes neanderthal teeth found F d mire the event has bag proved that early man of the neanderthal type the I 1 for bidding species which disappeared from europe long before the a ice As age ended had passed this way and by force ir or by his own free will did enter obar dalam n never to come came out mt again only two of his big molar teeth have been base found but they are amply sufficient clent for hla his recognition they are fossil iced to the same degree as aa the me hours bones of a extinct X species of elephant and ad hip pop popo tamus otmous w which tell toy lay side by side with the them in the red cave earth ciotti la in no race of men have such roch teeth ever been seen except in the neanderthal spec pa clea how DI discovery very ww WAS made mad the discovery was made in these circumstances t just before the th we war b brahe it out the british A DB an dercook dercook to explore the athi alti or of mit malta particularly those of abar dalam the actual work fell chiefly on not or dr aDe G descott De spott curator of the net nat ural history museum in maiac malt in the autumn tto of 1017 1917 he spent his holiday digging a trench screen across the floor door of the on cave S feet from its t 8 entrance it we was ital this trench which jr revealed e w a alad ah the remarkable molars just mentioned both lay in the red cave north earth one two and a halt half feet below the sort aorta ce the other three and a half feet feat before beffa gibraltar we ana the only place in earth europe which had yielded the bosell remains of this peculiar species of man lately IV thanks to the interest which prof T rector of the endres city ity of malta taken in matters mout ing to prehistoric man all 11 the teeth found by doctor desett in ghar cher dalam were sent to the royal college of surge surgeons 1 in order d that they might be compared too pared examined and described th the result of this ax fruit has been to convince sir bit arthur keith kait b that at DO mistake be has bead been in made the molar teeth ire are those mae of N neanderthal lortha man teeth an important unk link with the teeth there that co came from malta a detailed survey of obey abar DJ arn am so and d of the etrata rt r of it its floor pre pared by mt mr george sinclair MI M 1 0 E hla HIS plans plan and ad levels III throw threw new aw light on an the see AV of the strata 1 ID the CRTS cars flad floor and of the fossil remains fannies including the N neanderthal AIlder thal which were found 1 in them it be became thus possible to connect the is deposits 1 in this great maltese cave 11 1 1 with the f reous ones of G grimalda Grimal dl on an the it riviera near dear mentone where the he boom bones and A culture of do paleolithic me man occur la in such euch abundance in the floor door of the ghar dalam dole ther them are the remains of the old sea beach a b bone bre breccia III made ad of rolled a it pebbles and rolled called pieces of the fossil foh bonea bonce of three extinct species of elephant and ad of two of hippopotamus ancle hunters hunter used cave no how did the bonea of the them 1 tude of elephants wad and of hippopotami become became callec collected tat in such number club or 1 in alaor deism ghar chat dalum a mt mr SI sinclair CI air has baa pointed out mt offered ancient hunters let l ideal conditions condl tlona for trapping and it co driven droves and herds of af wild beasts the neighboring ng bay mom part of the suit aalt sen senen en in 1 the daya day of the of lot inter continental land bridge a challow fresh water lake just the place to at tract droves of el elephant ant and hippo up from that lake went the natural tend road to the plateau beyond the in ravine ina OD the eastern aide of which the entrance IS to the cave opened wild beasts driven up this delile defile until raw they reached the mouth of the cave could baa have be been headed handed by paleolithic hunt ers en toward the mouth of the cave 1 our once el within hin the cave cafe ono one can still till imagine I 1 the b a e t ped and ad the bloody ot of the put forward to explain the vast east accumulation it of remains of elep elephant bant and hippopotamus pot mus in the floor door of gher date dalam tile invocation of paleolithic banter bantam give what seema to be the best beet P po ethic elble loll 1011 |