The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-17
EARLY EUROPEAN RACES
How Cid ThiI Continent Originate
Wore lnhabtants from Africa?

We're Inhabitants from African
The recent discovery in cave Ia
Northern Rhodesia Of a human skull
apparently many thousands Of years
old seems to put Africa on the map
for the FIST time as the probable field
OF development for men who played
an important part In the life Of Pre-
historic Europe Where the most i'm.
po7tant old human skulls have been
discovered heretofore and what their
locations 9eem to ind cate is tod IN
the following bulletin from the Wash
ington, D c.. headquarters Of the Ma
tional Geographic Society
Europe has been recognized as
merely the stage In which ate acts Qf
the great drama of the development
Of a man ANA his civilization have
been played, says the bulletin Nom
of the rachs that has lived IN Europe
during the period Of mans l'fe on the
earth is believed to have originated
there Hitherto all evidence pointed
TO Asia rs the source OF the succeed.
ing waves Of human immigrants as it
was the source, at least approximate
/ ly, Of the thousands of horses, er
and cattle that swarmed the country
during interglacial periods.
Races had come acrOjs the and
bridges from Africa, but for the most
I rart they had merely used northern
Afr ca as path, coming from Arabia
or faith 7r Asia. The ore exception
known was the strange8 az peara ice
along the southern fr.ngeef Europe at
/ one time OF a race aknato the negro
pygmies Of present day central Africa.
/ But III 50 small negroids wee an IN.
Important factor and soon vanished
80 far a. Europe is concerned
the Heidelberg men were the earliest
known human inhabitants A single
jawbone data from conclusions have
been drawn iB regacd to this race
which Is supposed TO have ived som
/ 200 900 years ago, Theyfare Slassed
as the first who ly human beings OF
whom 70 sis have been discovered
and are supposed to- hayS been late;
by probably a quarter Of a million
years than the ape man whose skull
was discovered in Java
"Th3 Heidelberg men we're appar
entity succeed d about $4,000 years
ago by 'Ong persisting type Of whom
many fosSils have been found the
Neanderthal man. Skulls and bones
Of thiI widely ditfused people have
been found in France, Germany. Bel
GUM. Croatia. on the Channel Isles
on the rock Of Gibraltar, AMI IN Malta
They were cave dwelling hunters and
for more than $4,000 years lived of
the herds Of horses deer and cattle
that abounded In Europe during that
period.
These Neaudcrthal men were much
more advanced than the men OF He
delberg. but still they were lower in
the scale than any savage Of the pres
ent day. They were squat, burly, big
headed and thck.sku led Their
trows projected markedly over caver
nous ey, $. they were almost chinless
and their knees were permanently
bent. The fir skull of these people
discovered more than 60 years age
was so wildly divergent from existing
skulls that one scientist insisted that
1t was ma formation 1t was only
after the discovery of other fossil.
that the former existence Of tn $ race
was generally accepted
Though Neanderthal remains have
been discovered at the very edge OF
northern Afrc ca notably in Gibraltar
and Malta, there hos beon no general
tendency to look upon Africa as the
source of that people. The skull and
bones recently d scovered in northern
Rhodes a, however, opens up the pos
sibilities that it was from Africa that
Europe's Neandegthal horde came
TIL Broken H II Skull as the African
fossil IS cal ed, is n some ways more
primitive than the European Neander
thai skulls though it is believed to be
more recent. These fact give added
weight to the bel eff that the skull re
Gently found was nearer than the Eu
ropean fcssi's to the original point OF
dissr mlnation of the Neanierthal men
1.-THE Neanderthal men represent
about the last known types OF humans
with skull development lower than
that of present day savag2s. When
they di appeared $4,000 or 10000 years
ago they were succeeded by the Gro
Magnon men, hunters and also art SITS
who have left remarkable drawings
Of animals on the walls of certain-cayes
in France. They were tall, finely
built Intelligent race, the first known
men generally rated as belonging tc
the same species as our own Home