Evening star., 1921-05-22
4 Sensational Discovery
in the Scientific Line.
Recently Discovered
Facts About the Pre-
historic NJ Man-The e
Cause of a Hitherto
Unexplained Leap IN
Progress-The Oldest
Dwelling in the World.
ny STERLING HElLlG'

>rI,<roHE Monte Carlo, May IL, l9-l.
~ODAY we drove 1918 motor
car along a 1921 seaside ROAD
md Maid a call on a man who
L ia soO 900 years old. Only MS
hores are left, but there seems 10 "e
m argument about his age. nc an"
his family of three. one mere souhs
ster of 19s.9S5 years. arc staying d.
,,ace called the Roches Rouses' OH
Tho Italian frontier few steps oe-
,,ond the French border city OF Men
to,e They need a rest. as there IS
| worry evidence that they walked mere
rom Africa when the walking was
odd" says Giuseppe Abbo. AT the
NC of the journey the Mcditerranean
,;5 not exist, nor could mankind nave
croas.d such a stretch of water. Be-
tween Mentone and Algiers there were
tropical forests and marshes, full of
! lions. antique elephants and rhI-
noceroscs.
They brought some elephants with
T; them. Bones Of gigantic roasts. mixed
| with ashes Of hearths. are found in
; the coves of Red Cliff. where they
lived. In fact. there are elephant
. sepulcher, and exhibit bones repose
beside them in glass cases OF little
museum near the caves, with flint
, weapons, utensils and the lady's neck
| lace.
Roches Rouges means Red Cliff. 1t
stands at great height. older than the
, Mediterranean, risen from some pre-
vious ocean and scraped smooth by
! tho winds of million years. At its
bottom are these nine caves-oldest
<f III ind
AS the caves are very spacious. Red
Cliff must have been quite little
| town in its day.
! It's day? The continuous occupation
of Red Cliff numbs the imagina ton.
At the tombs of the kings of Egypt
we gaze with awe on the features of
great Rameses, as il he must have
been born shortly after Adam We
! count the piled centuries on the pyra
mids. But, here. Egypt is thing of
Egypt, Assyria and mighty China her
self in the kindergarten class. They
belong to the rare and exclusive So
! ciety of the old stone age-the clipped
THE people who inhabited these
caves belong to our earliest
known ancestors. They stand at the
root of the family tree. They repre-
! sent the Adam and Eve of human his
| tory. Behind these people stretches
the void of the unknown. 1t is in their
likeness that the first human being
steps out of the everlasting darkness
into the light of the world!
Here we approach a mystery Of the
| caves. The men of Red Cliff were
physically fine, with honorable brain
| development. There is an impression,
rather general, that these men of long
ago were bruitish creatures. apelike
and uncouth. little more, in fact. than
gorillas with touch of human craft.
They show. on the contrary. the char
acteristic features Of the bones of
modern men and women. They have
the same straight back, broad shoul-
portioned limbs and delicate feet and
hands. Such differences as exist are
slight and technical. This skeleton of
a Red Cliff man might have been that
of modern athlete, but with mus
| cular development that a modern
might envy; while this shapely woman
from the depths of a cave might have
graced, in life. the paddock of Long
champs racecourse. There are some
peculiarities of the shinbone. but they
would not have been noticed through
a silk stocking, as Sir Frederic Treves
, says The skull is different in shape.
, the face is fat. the nose is broad. the
jaws prominent. They may not have
been beautiful faces. but we are not
even sure Of this.
y + x y
OTHEH men. and more mysterious.
~ were in these caves before them,
y: the nine caves :hc largest Is; E.,-r:a-
Grande In 1892 il stiu measured hft,-
three -feek4frou front to back and. thir.