Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-14
The Outline of History-By H. G. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

large fore limbs He may have been a. wool
ly, strengthening inhuman creature.
We must turn over the Record for, it may
be, another 100000 years for the next re-
mains of anything human or sub-hum2n. |
Then in deposit ascribed to Third Intergla-
cial period which may have been 100 600
years ago and lasted $4,000 years, the smash
ed pieces of whole skull turn up. The de-
post is a gravel which may have been de-
rived from the washing out of still earlier
gravel strata, and his skull fragment may be
in reality as old as the First Glacial Period.
The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in
Sussex display creature still ascending only
very gradually from the sub-hunan.
The first scraps Of this skull were found
in an excavation for road gravel in Sussex.
Bit by bit other fragments Of this skull were
hunted out from the quarry heaps until most
of it could be pieced together. 1t is thick
skull, thicker than that of any living race of
men, and it has brain capacity intermediate
between that Of Pithecanthropus and man.
The Dawn of Man
This creature has been named Eoan-
thropus, the dawn man. In tie same gravel
pits were found teeth of rhnoceros, hippota-
l4-u and the leg bone of a deer with marks
upon it that may be cuts. A curious bat
shaped instrument of elephant bone has also
been found.
There was moreover a jaw-bone among
those scattered remains which at first
assumed naturally enough to belong to Eoan-
LuIOpuS, DuC Which IL was dlI6rWdIuS BUG
gested was probably that Of chimpanzee. It
is extraordinarily like that of chimpanzee,
but DR.. Keith, one Of the greatest authorities
in these questions, assigns it, after an ex-
haustiVe analysis in his "Antiquity of Man"
(1915), to the skull with which it is found
1t is, as a jaw-bone, far less human in CHI, -
acter than the jaw of the much more ancient
Homo Heidelbergcnsis, but the teeth ara N
some respects more like those of living men,
DR.. Keith, swayed by the jaw-bone, es
not think that Eoanthropus, in spite of its
name, is creature in the direct ancestry Of
man. Much less is it an intermediate form
between the Heidelberg man and the Mean
derthal man we shall presently describe. 1t
was only related, ue thinks, to the true an
cestor of man as the orang is related to the
chimpanzee. 1t was one OF number of sub
human running apes Ct more than ape-like
intelligence, and If it was not on the line
royal, it was, at any rate, very close col
lateral.
After this glimpse of skull, the record for
very many centuries gives nothing but flint
implements, which improve steadily in quail
ity. A very characteristic form is shaped like
a sole, with one flat side stricken off at one
blow and the other side worked. The arch
biologists, as the record continues, are pres
emily able to distinguish scrapers, borers,
knives, dartsy throwing stones and the like.
Progress is now more rapid in fey centur-
les the shape Of the hand-axe shows distinct
and recognizable Improvement And then
comes quite a mum er Of remains. The Fourth
Glacial age is rising toward it's maximum.
Man is taking to caves and leaving vestiges
there; at Krapina in Croatia, at Neanderthal
near Dusseldorf, at Spy, human remains have
been found, skulls and bones Of "a creature
that is certainly {. man.
Homo" a Portrait
Somewhere about $4,000 years ago, If not
earlier, appeared Homo Neanderthalensis
(also called Homo antiquus and Homo prinli-
genius, quite passable human being.
His thumb was not quite equal in flexi-
bility and usefulness to a human thumb, he
stopped forward and could not hold his head
erect, as all living men do, he was chinless
and perhaps incarablH of speech, there were
curious differences about the enamel and the
roots of his teeth from those of all living
men, he was very thick-set he was, indeed,
not quite of the human species; but there
is no dispute about his attribution to the
genus Homo. He was certainly not descend
ed from Eoanthropus, but his jaW-bone IL
so like the Heidelberg jaw-bones as to make
it possible that the clumsier and heavier
Homo Heidelbergensis, thousand centuries
before him, was Of his blood and race.
Copyright, 1929
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