Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-22


X derstands the first man aud woman,
- Science, of course. explains that man
and woman did not suddenly come into ex-
istence In the form in which they exist to-
day, but that they evolved gradually from
lower animal forms.
But the ordinary man will continue to
speak Of Adam and Eve. Science is every
day cleaning new facts concerning Adam and
Eve, otherwise the earliest man and woman
telling us what they looked like how they
lived, what their habits and abilities were,
and so forth
Professor Won Buttel-Reepen, a noted an
thropologist of the University OF Berlin IN
new book. MAN and His Forerunners,' has
summarized the discoveries concerning the
earliest men in a very interesting manner.
He holds it proved that man-like being eN
listed in the late tertiary period, preceding
the present formation of the earths surface.
This was in the neghborhood of a million
years ago
These early men used very rough stone
tools called "eoliths," which at one time were
thought to have been shaped by accident
This man did not know the use of fire but
even he was ages more advanced than the
"pithecanthropus erectus" or "ape-man that
walked erect" discovered by DR. Dubois in
Java He was not quite human.
The first man. uuquestionably proved to
be SOcn, lNeu during Tue EIGdt i1' dSN' NiiiSh
lasted between two and three hundred thou
sand years. The seventies of the ice age evi-
IDENTIFY gave a powerful impetus to the de-
velopment of man In the intergaeial periods
his progress appears to have been partleu'
larly great
The type of man who inhabited Europe
during the greater part of the ice age be
longed to the Neanderthal race, so called
from the skull found at Neanderthal in Ger
many in 1S4S The Neanderthal man bore a
marked resemblance to the gorilla.
The first man appears to have been can
nibal. There seems to be no doubt about this
shocking fact from many OF the remains that
have been found in Europe. One OF the noted
discoveries OF prehistoric bones was in an
ancient cavern by the River Krapinica, near
the town of Krapina, in Hungary. Professor
Kramberger there found the remains of about
ten human beings-men, women and children
At the time the cave first inhabited it
was sometimes flooded by the river. as shown
by the fact that silt left by the river now
covers the ancient floor of the cavern, But
the river to-day flows about eighty feet below
this level. II is certain that thousands and
thousands OF years must have been neces
sary for the river to work its bed down to
the depth of eighty feet.
Some of the bones belong to the Neander-
thai race. Many OF the bones were smashed
and burnt and others had been split open
with the evident purpose of extracting the
marrow from tneu. tteFe Is CledT tNtuelNt
that a cannibal feast was held in the cavern.
Professor Klaatsch, the German anthropol-
ogist, holds that some of the bones belong TO
the Neanderthal race and others to the Au-
rignacian race. who we're much more intelli-
gent and Of a different type Klaatsch be
lieves that tribe of Aurignacians came upon
a band of the more primitive Neanderthalers
and after a great slaughter devoured their
victims in the cave.
The first man known 10 have had formal
funeral was young Neanderthaler who was
buried about 100000 years ago. His grave
was found by Professor o. HauseT, of Swift
zerland, near the cavern called lie Moustier
in the valley OF the Vezere in the Dordogne,
France. a locality famous for relics of the
earliest men. The skeleton that of
Nesnderthal youth about fifteen or sixteen
years old. He was lying in sleeping pos
ture on his right side. with his right elbow
under his cheek and his right hand at the
back of his head. His head rested upon sew
eral flint plates. which had been carefully
Clipped and formed a sort of pillow. There
were numerous partly burned bones of the
AurochS the now extinct wild OK, lying near
the skeleton. which seems 10 imply that the
friends of the deceased desired 10 provide
his spirit with food They put well Clipped
hint implements Of the hand wedge type by