The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-25
PALEOL|TH|C MANKIND
SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION OF
FLINT WEAPONS.
Scton-karr's Great Find in Somaliand
Bought for the United States Bibli.
cal Theories.

There has recently been received at
the Smithsonian Institution collec-
ton which is of the greatest import
ance to the archaeologist. and which,
when all the facts concerning IL are
known by the casual visitor to thu
place, will he of undoubted interest.
In it are weapons and implements us
ed by prehistoric, primeval man, hun
dreds of thousands of years ago. 1t
may have been that with such a wear
ON as is comprised in the collection,
Cain killed Abel, and the residents of
the stone age hunted the huge mon
strosities in the wilds of Africa, the
plains of India and on and about the
chalk bluffs of England.
The collection is known as the Sc.
ton-Karr contribution, having been
discovered by this prominent English
expert i'm archaeological matters, in
Somaliland, on the eastern coast of AZ
RIGA. some months ago. The imple-
ments were purchased from the dis
coverer by the Smithsonian lnstitu-
ton and placed in the division of pre-
historic anthropology.
There are about fifty pieces in the
collection. made of flint, or quartide,
and ranging in size from an inch or so
i'm length to half foot, some weigh
ing several pounds. The objects are
supposed to be spear heads, battle az
es and wedges, trsncheons, bludgeons,
or whatever they may be termed.
Gazing at them one can gain an idea
of what the ancestors of the human
! oil 1nr
coarse of form and feature. with huge
bodies and massive limbs. Such weap-
ons could have been welded by none
except a race of giants.
The great point of interest from an
archaeological standpoint to be secur-
ed from the objects is that they re
semble implements found in England
and France.
Sir John Evans of England, the
greatest living authority on such mat
tiers, said recently that the implements
in the collection were manufactured
by people who probably lived 3OO,-
600 years ago. The difference between
them and other palaeolithic nipple
ments is, except for an extraordinary
weather beaten appearance, they are
perfect i'm appearance as the day on
which they were made. The find brid-
ges over the interval between palace
lothic man in Britain and India, and
tends to prove the unity of race be-
tween inhabitants of Asia, India and
Europe in palaeolithic times
II. w. Seton-Knrr discovered the OBJ
iects forming the Smithsonian Institu
ton collection in Somaliland, while
tracking lion on il bare hillside. II
was while at this occupation he came
upon the Headquarters of primeva
man and his former stronghold. This
was shown by the number Of stone i'm
plements. once buried deep for con
ceaIment. but when found raised OF
pyramids of solicited gravel like boul
ders of "A glacier.
Mr.. Seton Karr has discovered los
flint mines last November in Egypt
He had previously found stray flint
in Thebes, but was anxious to prov,
that there was no connection between
the comparatively modern temples ant
pyramids of Egypt and the more an
cient palaeolithic remains Throughout
the whole Nile valley.
Rumors had come from the Arab
of large flint mines in the eastern DIES
ert. Somaliland is on the earnest coas
of Africa. south of the Red Sea, an,
the Gulf of Adea. While proceedin,
on his travels one day, with his cara
van of Bedouins and camels, on tn
hidden cliff plateaus of the Wad,
Sheik, he came across what appeare,
to be ruined cities of vast extent
stretching eastward across the desert
barren, treeleSs and waterless. Oh
examination the mines were discov
cred.
The discoverer has this to say on tn
subject of his find and the localit,
where the objects were unearthed:
Certain landmarks as to the fou
rivers mentioned in Genesis led me tt
think that the Garden of Eden, if i
existed, may have been here, and tina
these very tools had been made ant
used by Adam and his numerous de
scendants. At any rate my discover
les in Egypt and in Somaliland leat
me to the idea that mains 0rigina
home or the place where he was grad
ually evolved, must have been i'm AT
RIGA. or, at least, in tropical land
where clothes were unnecessary ant
food plentiful to hand"
The archaeologist accounted for tn,
est implements of all in very simpl,
manner.
There must have BEEN" he says
definite intercourse and communica
ton then as now, between Europe
Asia and Africa, and this was for tn,
purpose of trading in. flint spears ant
arrow heads with those countries in
which no flint existed. Parts of tn,
North sea and the Mediterranean il
those times were dry land so trave
was comparatively easy"
If any one is interested and doubt
less there are many, in knowing wha
manner of man the resident of tn,
| world was before the flood, and ever
before Adam existed, the archaeolo
gists say, the desire can be gratified by
examining the Smithsonian Institu
tion collection, for in all ages it ha.
been the case that insight into the
general appearance, habits, manners
and customs of any race can be CLEAN