Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-09

marks OF plants on the rocks of this
same geologic period we learn of the
plant life when these Tree Dweller5
lived. Certain savage races living ups
on the earth now and within historic
times (some in the Palaeolithic and
some in the Neolithic stage of culture)l
have added greatly TO our knowledge
of primitive man. for. by comparing
widcly-scattered relics of prehistoric
man with each other, and their impIe-
ments with those of the primitive peo-
pies of today. we find all these 50
identical as to prove that under similar
conditions people everywhere and at
all times tend TO develop independents
ly the same general culture. In other
words. primitive man OF today is trav-
cling the same road that our ances-
tors'trayeled millenniums ago so that
when studying primitive man Of today
We are at the same time studying pre-
historic man. Naturally there comes a
place and a time when absolutely no
earth are to be found This is to be
expected. Man was not always man.
And after he became man We know
not how many centuries. even ages. no
was in developing even the first crude
tools.
If these prehistoric Tree Dwcllcrs
had made a map OF the world in which
they lived, 1t would not seem today 10
represent the sas1e earth. Europe and
America then, in very fact, stretched
hands across the sea- Greenland, lee
land and the few intervening islands
are the highest points OF a land that
for ages has been gradually sinking.
In map of those days not only would
Amcri a and Europe be joined. but
there was no Mediterranean Sea toss-
ing It's blue waters between Europe
and Africa The climate was much
warmer then than now and. though
very gradually cooling. lush tropical
forests extended far beyond the trop-
les. rich evergreen forests lourished
farther north than now, and water
lilies grew within eight degrees of the
Pole"
Trees We're Safer.
In such climate and in such forests
dwellcd the first rude people. You
will perhaps wonder why men ever
liycd in trees, but you must remember
that at that time man had developed
but little from the common ancestor OF
both man and the anthropoid apes and,
as you know these apes. though much
more intelligent than other apes and
monkeys. live in trees 10 this day.
Apes and mon, unlike many wild ami
mails. have no powerful organ of at
tack and defense. Picture. then. naked
savages. absolutely unarmcd and liy-
ing in great and constant fear of the
wilder creatures inhabiting the caves
and dens. and you will see that trees
were the only homes they could have.
Naked, unarmcd savaEes may well be
supposed to be ignorant OF building
even the rudcst huts, and the trees ut
least afforded them some protection
from the wild beasts. and in those
days there were many large and cruel
animals such as arc now found in only
the widest parts of the earth, and sew
eral gigantic animals that have been
extinct for thousands Of years. There
was an animal something like very
large tiger. but armed with two large
sabro-liko teeth. SO these arc known
as "sabre-toothcd' tigers. Then there
was a great bear. much larger than tho
largest grizzly. and the mammoth. u
huge animal much like. but larger.
than tho elephant. There were also
the big-nosod rhinoccrus. the small
noscd rhnoCcros. and the woolly
rhinoceros. tho latter two at the dawn
OF the first glacial age minglins in
Central Europe. the former coming up
from the south. the latter from the
north.