The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-13


win in Africa.
Taking into considerations however,
tina. man dctcriorAtcs in a tropical eli
mate, and advance incJ!ntric- where
the temperature in the hottest season
Of the year .ci.:o;ii ;.:.tecl, 20 nr 81
degrees Fahrenheit, and remembering
how grra; nust have been the heat
during lli' I.oconc epoch We shall
haze ~ diliirulty in percrvnr that
Sc must turn t. the REGIONS Of the
north whcrc the temperature at
that time would be similar to that If
the south Of Europe at the prcscn,
day if we wish to find the most anita
bic "habtat for our early ancestors.
Ii we concentrate our attention on
the trace, Of prehistoric mar, found
in the northwest corner Of Europe,
VIC are surprised to note their number
and importance ~ compared with
those found III other parts oi Europe,
in Asia, or in Africa. 1t is not only
the tlints found in SuiFoly, and in al
most every part Of England (somc Of
which arc said to be prcglacaD, and
in Belgium, France and Germany, but
there are also the human remains
found in the cavcs-thc l'rixham
cave, and Kent hole near Tor1uay-
the Ncandcrthal skull, found near
Namur: the Borrcby skulls, in Den
mark; the I;ngis skull, and others too
numerous to be mentioned; and when
in addition TO all this VIC remember
that the dryopithccus was native Of
France We are at first naturally inclin-
cd to jump to the conclusion that
here, in this northwest portion Of Eu
rope, was the cradle Of the human
race. But unfortunately, SO far as
this supposition is concerned, VIC find
that belonging to the same remote
date, if not to an even earlier period,
similar worked liints and other human
relics arc found in America Now in
order to get from Toruuay, or the val
ley Of the SOmmc, from Namur or
Dusseldorf to America or from Amcr-
ca to these places, man must either
have crossed by the Bchring straits or
by the now submerged route across
Iceland and Greenland. And this is
most important fact which we can
not gainsay or disregard. But if this
be SO we are compelled to admit that
long before the glacial epoch (Which
is said to have lasted from 2l0, 600
years ago up 10 about $4,000 years
ago) man was in or near the arctic re-
gions. There is no getting away from
this fact. Aud as the human race
was, therefore, near the Polar regions
Mt time lonr cntcrior to that Of any
of the flints found in Great Britain or
in the Somme valley, we arc unwill-
ingly compelled to rclinqaish the
hypothesis that the cradle Of the race
may have been in the northwest Of
Europe.
If, on the other hand, VIC turn our
attention to the trace Of prehistoric
man" in North America we find that
these equal if they do not exceed
those of Europe a large number of
them arc referred to in an article by
Mr.. Wallace which appeared in this
Review in November, 1887, and
among them he mentions that when
the great mastodon now in the British
museum was found by pr. konck in
the Usage valley. Missouri, number
OF stone arrow heads and charcoal
were found near it, and that one Of
the arrow heads lay under the thigh
bone Of the mastodon and in contact
with it. This animal, it will be re-
mcmbered, was found ut depth Of
twenty feet, under seven alternate
layers of loan, gravel, clay and peat,
with forest Of old trees on the sur
face. lie also refers as follows to the
case Of the Calavcras skull
lin the year 1889 some miners
found in the cement, in close proxim-
ity to pctrified oak, curious round
ed mass Of earthly and stony material
containing bones, which they put on
one side, thinking it was curiosity
of some kind. Professor Wymau, TO
whom it was given, had great difficulty
in removing the cement gravel and
discovering that it was really human
skull nearly entire. It's base was en-
bcdded in a conglomcratc mass of fer
ruginous earth, watcr-worn volcanic
pebbles, calcareous tufa, and frag-
mcnts Of bones, and several bones Of
the human foot and other parts of the
skeleton were found wcdgcd into the