Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-22
SANTA BARBARA MAN
BRINGS NEW HISTORY
Of LIFE Of ANC|ENTS
BY JACK JUNGMEYER

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, NOV
17.-Timing his posthumous reap.
pearance to jibe with efforts in sew.
eral states to squelch the teaching
of human evolution, the Santa
Barbara Man" energies from his 49,
000-year sleep to level stony-eyed
challenge at these disputants.
John p. Harrington, Smithsonian
archeologist, unearthed him here a
few days since, buried from time i'm
memorial under what was recently
the courtyard Of a fashionable hotel.
About all that is preserved OF
Homo Barbarensis" is his thick,
low-browed and prognathous-jawe
skull. But that is sufficient for sci
entists to envisage the whole crea-
ture as he once roamed among his
prehistoric kind. A sub-man, just
above the ape, by all the bony evil
dence.
Indian PrOgenitOr?
Considered the most significant
skull seems to provide another of
those missing links" long sought
and occasionally accidentally found
to bolster the theory of mans trans
mutation from Beast to Rabbit.
Pending more careful study, this
primitive is believed to be the pro-
genitor Of the American Indian and
the cousin of those races which
roamed the glacial steppes Of Eu.
rope when the world was young.
And so that Mr.. Barharensis,
greatest of American grandfathers,
may not have to bear alone the
scrutiny of scientists and the event
ual curious gaze of the world S
young folk, his wife has come up
out Of the crypt with him
Her Mouth Open
Her skull lay beside his, differing
just enough to be pronounced fe-
male by the eXhumers. Her jaws re.
main open, widely distended, as i
with prodigious scream she sought
to forfend her mate from that ter.
ror which may have laid them down
to become the riddle of another age.
Both skulls are extraordinarily
heavy-nearly twice as thick OF
Uranium as any present-day man. In
profile, they show no forehead what.
ever.
The slope from frontal bone to
the back of the head is more pro.
nounced than that in the famous
relic of the Neanderthal man who
is asserted to have lived in Europt
more than $4,000 years ago.
The upper jaw lunges from be-
meath the nose at an angle seen to-
day only in the apes. But the teeth.
flat and square like those of a COW,
prove their owners humans, though
far down the transitional scale, &C.
cording to Harrington.
The Santa Barbara pair We're
short and squat, presumably feed.
ing largely on seeds and herbs that
needed vigorous grinding.
Implements and crude weapons
found near the bones were similar
to those identified with the old
Stone or Paleolithic Age in Europe.
"The size and contour of the
skulls" says Harrington, indicate
that they antedate the Neanderthal
man. It is certain they are not those
Of American Indians. Nor are they
apes.
PrecariOus Lives
"They come somewhere between
the two. The Santa Barbara skull
is that of a 'sub-man'-a link ap.
parently between the father Of the
American Indian and the early hui.
mans Of the European continent for
which scientists have long been
searching.
The life of Mr.. and Mrs. Barbar.
| ens1s was the precarious existence
| of Stone Age folk in the red dawn
| Of the race. Providing the coasta,
benches with them were fierce car
nlvora, notably the saber-tooth tiger
who also left his remains in the La
Brae tar pits near Los Angeles.
Over the eastern horizon hung the
fiery glow Of volcanoes. Even il
those days southern California, al
it's boosters might boast, was nice
and warm, while much of the worlC
was shivering in glacial rigor.
But the climate which nurturet
it's early humans also brough
hordes of predatory beasts. A mar
had ITO be thick skulled to survive
Hailed forth from beneath thei
tombstone of marine reef rock
these lithic phantoms of remot
| Time Will compel a nOQlIlcatlOn o
H. G. Wells assertion in his 'Out
line" that Man was fully MAJ
when he entered America. The oil
world was the nursery Of the sut
races of mankind"
For they are, apparently, as vail
chronological foundation as the fras
mentary evidence from which pre-
historic life in Europe has been Pre-
jected.