The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-27
BY FREDERICK c., OTHMAN
United Press staff Correspondent
CnnvriphL hv United Press


Copyright by United Press
DENVER, Colo, Aug. 27.-Re-
mains of the worlds first man, dis
covered by DR.. Harold j. Cook of
the Colorado Museum of Natural
History, Denver, tendSto show that
the man of 100000 years ago had
most of the instincts and tendencies
Of modern human being.
A tooth of one of these prehistoric
citizens of the United States was
found among other fossilized re-
mains by DR.. Cook at Agate S~"ings,
Neb.
So sure are scientists that the
tooth represents hitherto unknown
race that they have credited DR..
Cook with having discovered the
H p e opithecus Harolodcookii,
(which means in English "the ape
inan of the west found by Harold
Cook"
A little guess work, from which
Dr. Cook absoives himself of all re-
sponsibility until his findings can
be verified further, paints most in
teresting and in all likelihood an
authentic picture of the first known
human life in the world.
First Lived in Tree
First of all Hesperopithecus Har-
oldcookii lived in tree. There were |
no caves. And had he been able to |
build house for himself on the |
ground he sooner of later would |
have awakened one morning to find |
his roof crushed in by the enormous
foot of some beast towering high |
above him.
So, sleeping at night in tall tree,
the Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii |
cautiously climbed down at dawn to
stalk small game with the sharp
weapons he had fashioned for him
self out of green bone. Fossilized |
bone weapons used by him have
been found.
He didn't need the animals skins
for clothes because OK the tropical
sun which warmed him, but he did |
eat the meat. Crushed marrow |
bones in great numbers found near
the tools point to his carnivorous
appetite.
Music Was Solace
And when he couldn't find a small
bird or diminutive beast to eat, he
beat in one of his brothers skulls
with, club made from all elephant !
bone and resorted to cannibalism.
Crushed and macerated bones
4greatly resembling those of present
day humans were discovered.
AT nightiau after the days work
was done, he turned to music for So
lace from the rights of the many
eyed jungle closing in about him.
Up in his tree safe from the gil
gantic snarling cats, the mastodonic
dogs and the huge Shiny beasts be-
low him, he blew into his bone flute
q simple tune which perhaps he
thought would quiet the jungle
strife about him. A hollow bone
drilled with holes similar to those
of fife was found in the Agate
Springs deposits.
Lived for Many Ages
He lived thus for many ages, more
than 100000 years, fighting, play
ing, raising families, and gradually |
becoming more intelligent as the
facts of the world about him pene-
trated his thick skull
But after innumerable sons sue |
Ceeded innumerable fathers, the ice
age began to dim the tropical splen-
dor of North America. Gradually as
the years passed by the thousand |
and the hundred Thousand, the sun
shone less brightly. 1t began to get |
volder.
The less hardy animals, snakes
and birds vanished.
Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii
chilled by the biting winds from the
north, probably took to clothing
himself with skins from the great |
packs Of wolves which abounded in
the region.
But the progress of the icy cold |
ness was steady. Thousands more
generations lived and died Vegeta-
sAtion withered away. The animals all /
disappeared from the face of the
earth.
Perished in Ice Age
And with the plant and anims.l |
life, Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii
too, probably persisted.
Although there is too great gap
between the quarternary age and
even the glacial age which followed
the ice era for scientists to make
statements Of any kind conc~-..'--
possible descendants of the earliest
man, DR.. Cook said that probably
there was no relation between him
and the modern American Indian.
1.-THE man-like race of 100000
years ago in all likelihood disap-
peared as did the animal and plant
forms when the ice age gripped the
world DR.. Cook declared.