Evening star., 1923-10-21
Grace of First Man Desecrdted.
Washington Scientist Reveals
DR.. Hrdlicka Trails, HUI,
n,anity Back for
100000 Years.
Says Theory That Cradle
of Race Vas in. Asia
Has Been DisproUed.

The grave of the earliest man has
been desecrated.
Perhaps 1t is more accurate to say
that the burial place of the first crea-
ture whose bones have been estab-
lished definitely as those of human
being Is being neglected.
This is the word brought back from
Germany by DIR. -Ales Hrdlicka. cura-
tor of physical anthropoligy at the
New National Museum. He has just
returned from a summer inspection of
a number of localities in central
Europe where remains of prehistoric
human beings have been found.
He followed a trail. he reports,
which leads at least 100000 years
into the foggy vast beyond history
and which winds through England
Belgium. France, Germany and south
ern Russia.
The jawbone of the earliest known
man was dug up nearly a halt CEN
tury ago by workmen in stone
quarry near Heidelberg, Germany
German anthropologists erected
stone tablet over the spot. W TN tiie
chaos of German currency since the
TO retain control of the site. 1t mas
Tfassed into the hands of man
who, although university graduate
has shown no sympathy with the re-
search work. Quarrying operations
have been resumed with the result
that the tablet has been buried
The Heidelberg man lived approN-
lnately 100000 years ago. rms lac'
is established by the age or the rock
IN which the jawbone was found. As
rstf, ~
discovery was, perhaps the most I'm
portant ever made in anthropologS
according to DIR. Hrdlicka.
The Washington scientist who CON
Quoted party of students visited one
other grave which Is older and Which
is believed to be that of man. al
though probably not of an ancestor
TO the mankind of today. This was
the spot where the jaw of the Pitts
down man was discovered IN South-
eastern England This creature-iI
he was d man-WaS good many
thousands of years older than the
Heidelberg man
One still older grave exists, but the
humanity of it's OCCUPANT is open TO
doubts This is the lava man. whose
teeth differ strikinyly from those of
any existing or known prehistoric
ape and which. according to DR..
Hrdlicka. is about as near the miss
ing link" sought by eVolutionlSts as
any creature vet known
The age of the skeletai remains OF
mans ancestors is determined by two
criteria-the stone implements and
the animal bones found in the locality
and the age Of the geological strata.
In almost every case where remains
have been found. DIR. Hrdlicka says.
the deductions of anthropoloEIstS
from the cultural remains have been
sustained by geologiSts. Early man
and the animals he hunted died to-
gether. His trail extends through
rhe heaped bones of early horses.
bison, reindeer. cave bears, mann
moths and even elephants.
Later researches amcne these re-
mains disprove. according to DR..
Hrdlicka. the ng-maintained the
pry that the human race ORIGINATED
somew here in central Asia and mi
grated westward and northward.
With the possible exception of the
Java man, the oldest rclics are found
in Europe itself. the oldest of all be-
ing in England
There is one bad break in the trail.
DR.. Hrdlicka says. From the Held ell
berg man there IS practically no rec
ord for about 100000 years. until sci
ence reaches the grave Of the Mean
derthal man, also in Germany. The
kinship of the Piltsdown. Java and
Heidelberg man to the race of today
Is open to dispute. They were, be-
yond doubt. of a different species
from the apes and bore some remark
able human characteristics. But the
Neanderthal was a man in every
sense of the word. although he NAV
not have been a direct ancestor of
the species which produced Shake
Speare and Napoleon ard Newton.
between him and the Heidelberg
man the great ice ages interviewed
lie came in the period of the last ice
invasion. about 10000 years ago The
race bad "d - ned IN rrI fIrr. rIu~iu ur