The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
just How Earliest Man Looked How He Lived How He Payed
House, First Traps First Paintings, First Theatre Dolls

~ Adam and Eve the ordinary man I'M
* derstands the first man and 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 g. very interesting manner.
He holds 1t proved that man-like being ex-
listed in the late tertiary period, preceding
the present formation of the earth's surface.
This was In the neighborhood OF a million
years ago.
These early men used very rough stone
tools called 'eoliths," which at one time we're
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 DIR. Dubois In
Java He was not quite human.
The first man, unquestionably proved to
DC SuCu, lVGO uuTlnE the great ice aga, winch
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 interglacial periods
his progress appears to have been particu-
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 1848. The Neanderthal man bore
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 was 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. 1t ds 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 them. Here is clear evidence
that cannibaI feast WEE held In the cavern
Professor Klaatsch the German anthroDol-
ogist, holds that some OF the bones belong to
the Neanderthal race and others to the Au-
rignaoian race. who were much more intelli-
gent and OF a different type. Klnatsch be-
iieyes that tribe OF Aurignacians came upon
a band OF the moro primitive Neanderthalers
and after a great slaughter devoured their
victims in the cave
The nrst man known TO have had a formal
funeral was young Neanderthaier, who was
buried about 260o00 years ago. His grave
was found by Professor O.. Hauser, OF Swift
Zerland, near the cavern called lie Moustier
IN the valley Of the Vezere in the Dordogne,
france locality famous for relics of the
earliest men. The skeleton was that of a
Nehnderthal youth about fifteen OF sixteen
years old. He was lying In a sleeping DOS
ture on his right side, with hia right elbow
under his cheek and his right hand at the
oack OF h1s head. His head rested upon sew
erai mint plates, which had been carefully
chlpped 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 to imply that the
friends or the deceased desired TO provide
MS spirit with food They put we'll chipped
Mint implements OF the hand wedge type by