Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-08


between Poncin and Neuville-surAin. AS long
ago as 1875 a scientist, MIR. Moyret, called atten-
ton to it having been inhabited in prehistoric
times. Ever since numerous Investigators nave
visited it, They conducted their Investigations
so assduously that the level Of the cave formed
during the Neolithic age-comparatively recent
in the eyes of biologists and anthropologists-
was dug away, also the contiguous level OF the
earlier Magdalenian age. This lowered the leVel
of the cave by Is centimeters and brought 10 Hght
rich fields of Neolithc and Magdalenian rellcs.
But the richest find OF all was yet to come DE-
ginning last May the latest investigators began 70
dig deeper into the soil forming the moor Oh INC
cave and after they had penetrated ABOUT one
meter further down they found stratum Oh ms
gravel showing unmistakabe signs OF, datlns
from the still earlier Aurignacian age MS
nroyed to be veritable treasure trove.
In it were uncovered the studio OF prenis-
toric artist Containing number OF dlnerent sollS
of engraver's tools, pieces OF mammotn' rnlnoo.
eros and raindeer bones pieces OF stone reaay lol
engraving and stones and Dohes WIN ensl@Fine0
already cut into them.
One of the latter represents horse OF re-
markedly finished type; another shows plsoh'
still another a wild sheep. But the prize OF the
whole collection the prize which, it is conndently
expected will make this an experimenting nhu
In the annals of anthropology, is the piece Oh
snammoth's bone on which is cut the figure OF a
human being This, in the words OF those VINO
have unearthed it, sis the first document Iep.e
senting in engraved form, the man or the Mluute
Quaternary age the minimum age OF which %
$4,000 years. ,. 20
A. those who delye into the remote history OF
orr race are aware, picturings of himself by pre-
historic man are extremely rare lie uensn.eu
In drawing and carving the strange beasts wnlch
he saw about him-bisons, reindeer malnlncln'
horses and the like-but when it came TO giving
- on idea of what he looked like himself he was
strangely coy. - i, tho
form of drawings or engravings. hude CARVINGS
of human beings, dating far beyond tne ua"n VI
HISTORY have been dug up-at Vllenoorl, III aus
4rio. at Brassempouy the Laussel cave, ana the
uprottoes of Grimaldi in France and cther places
Owing to this paucty OF hrsthahu iilloi ln".,o'
reconstructons of prehistoric man from 'no a
ous skulls and bones found at alnelen' ~ 49,
have been largely a matter of conjecture 1t mas
7aan a case of every one guessing for hmsen'
ra,or Ono proup of savants,, endeaVorlhe "
build IN our remote ancestor from tne l' iss
relics found in the Neanderthal near DusseluI - >
Germany; at Spy, in Belgium, ana at Id onapS
aux-Saints in France have shown US soinu 800,
materially strengthening the DarWlnlah it,
tbot man is descended from the ape. Ahoeo
yroun basng it's deductions on the man leeon
structed from the Piltdown SKULL mas 80 -
cd tn nroye that prehistoric man, from Mho .,
aro descended never became so bestlai 40 Sho
,anssessors of the NeanderthalSpyLa Chappehe
Inv saints skulls and that the latter belonged 10
!, branch of TIE race which gradually uesene I'-
cd until it finally became extinct wnhe tne DINER
and superior branch kept on improving an'ii man
&c ,va know him was gradually evolved
This latter theory, it is expected by the as
coverers of the prehistoric studio in the cave
NJ Ia Colombiere, will be grsatly boistered up
by what they have brought to hgnt. 10 oeern
with me best known depictions OF huHah -peiiss
=, = similar sort-notably the sculptured forms OF
women found at ALL and elsewhere in france
MS well as the sketches of the human race ul
oarthed in the cave of Marsouas-Were pfo ,au,
yonera11y accepted by Frenchmen, and therefore,
. ,,nnosed to be much more recent than any
thing dating from the Aurignacian age.
Granting, then, that the pictures IN .ne cav y,
= = Colombiere really date from the Aurignacian
.assSand the report read by NJ. Douville shows
"s concusively that they do--ard that those
s,miiar to them discovered up to now areIot
.a,a recent date, the character of the work done
a,,a artist OF La Colombiere is such as Inn
,neSiately to rivet the closest attention on It,
Ssor the imam" here shown the man OF the