The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
Roy Chapman An
drews Describes Pre-
historic Routes His
Party Will Follow in
Securing Asia for
Light on Origin of
the Human Race
!. r F man was made in the image of God,
he was also made in the image of


he was also made in the image of
an ape. The framework of the body
of him who has weighed the stars and made
the lightning his slave approaches to that
of speeches. brute who wanders in the
forest of Sumatra," wrote Hallam nearly 100
years ago, but it was not until 1891 that
Dutch army surgeon, Eugen Dubois, while
part of a skull, two molar teeth and a thigh
bone of what is generally believed to have
been an ape-man that lived approximately
100000 years ago.
Traces of primitive man have been sought
in various quarters of the globe; fossil hu-
man fragments have been found in Europe,
in South Africa. in South America, but the
leading scientists of the world have come
70 believe that the earliest home Of man as
we know him was in ASIA and that it is to
the Ease we must turn for light.
Seeking Basic Factors of Evolution.
"rhe causes that led to mans evolution
from the apes, how that evolution was ac-
complished, what primitive man looked like
and how he lived, these are all subjects on
which there is much theory but as yet very
little fact" says Roy Chapman Andrews.
who is about to lead the thud Asiatic ex-
petition of the American Museum "a Nat
uraI History. Our expedition hopes TO
throw some light on the matter; we hope
to discover some facts.
ours will be the largest and most COM
prehensive expedition ever sent out. our
quest is infinitely more uncertain than
l,.t tea n Gf-
Ing"
The third expedition, with Mr.. Andrews
ut its head. will make its headquarters in
Pekin and from this base Will carry on
work in zoology, paleontology ana anthro-
poogy a corps of specialists being as
signed to investigate China, Mongolia, Tibet
Manchuria and other regions hitherto I'M
disturbed by Europeans.
Central Asia was presumably the craoie
of the human race" says MIR. Andrews, VINO
is also deeply impressed by what his zoologi-
cal investigations have taught him-namely,
that Central Asia was the centre or distripu-
ton for many of the animals living to-day
In Europe. America and other parts or the
world. The caribou. moose. elk ana ROCKY
Mountain goat are all Of Asiatic origin ana
came to this country more than loo'Ooo
years ago, MIR. Andrews believes. when there
was a land bridge across what Is now the
Behring Sea. primitive man was hunt
err" says Mr. Andrews. "and as the beasts
on which he depended for his food moved
from place to place man followed on their
heels"
Along the Wild Common.
Along the breadth Of Asia and thence to
Europe. from the Chinese Sea on the east
to the EuAine on the west, and even to the
Atlantic and running between and beyond
the fortieth and fiftieth parallels OF latitude
stretches vast plain which from time nm
Memorial has been the wild common, the
place Of encaInpment, the broad horse path
of restless populations seeking home.
The European portion of this tract has
been reclaimed within the Christian era
from it's state Of desoation and is at present
occupied by civilized communities. but even
now the East remains In it's primitive neg
lect and il In possession Of rowing barbara
ans 1t goes by the general name of Tar
tary 1t is Of very different elevations in
different parts and LIS divided longitudinally
by as many AN three or four mountain chains
of great height.
The valleys which lie between confine the
wandering savage to an eastward or west
ward course, and the slope of the land west
ward invites him to that direction rather
than to the east
UP in the east whence he came in the
most northerly of tho lofty ranges, is a
great mountain which some have Identified
with the classical Imaus. Sometimes II Is
called the Girdle of the Earth. from the huge
appearance of the chain to which IL belongs,
and sometimes the Golden Mountain, from
the gold as well as other metals with which
its sides abound, and from 1t has gone forth
in the course of ages innumerable popula-
lions into the mysterious regions around IT.
There are many reasons why this region OF
Tartary has remained scientifically unex-
plored for so long time IL Is so remote
and. as Mr. Andrews emphasizes, diff
cult OF access that the cost of conducting
work on a large scale Is enormous.
Primitive Man and His Migrstions.
But IL primitive man, when he came down
from the trees to the solid earth and began
to walk erect was a hunter. he continued to
remain dependent on the beasts for food and
raiment long after the dawn of his intelli-
gence. To "eat bread" In the sweat of his
brow has always been his lot, but man as
tiller of the soil a slow evolution. He
chung to the brute animals which were his
aboriginal companions. The horse, the COW
and the sheep he made subservient to him:
ne fed his flocks and herds on the vegetation
of the earth and in turn he fed himself on
their flesh He remained on one spot while
the natural crop yielded sustenance. and
when II was exhausted he moved to an
other, supplementing his daily fare with the
fish he caught In the stream, the honey and
the roots he found in the woods and the
flesh Of the wilder animals that fell before
his cunning In the chase
Thus did he spread himself over the earth.
Leaving the district of Mongolia" says
John Henry Newman In an eloquent pas