New Britain herald., 1928-05-15
ANDREWS SEARCHES
 FOR THE DAWN-MAN !
Explorer Securing Through Gen.
 ral Asia

Kalgan. On the Great Wall of China, May ,15. P-Hish hopes for the discovery of fossillzed traces of an ancestor of mankind follow Roy Chapman Andrews, now we'll on his way into the wastes of Inner Mongolia, as the leader Of tie 1928 Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural His tory.
 It Is the belief of Andrews and other scientists that man orig mated in Central Asia and that this dawn man" Of the geologic ages ranged it's uplands two million or more years ago. Before his de- parture from kalgan he told The Associated Press corresponden, something of the plans for his ex- petition and Of his reasons for be- lieving that fossil remains of an- cestral human beings might be found.
 Three Previous Trips
 In the first place. three previous tnvasions of the Central Asia plateau under Andrews have estab- hshed that the region has been one of the greatest theaters of the eyo- lution of land life, possibly because of it's freedom from recurring ice ages and one of the most prolific. These expeditions have greatly en- riched mans knowledge of prehis- toric animal forms. One of them in 1928 first showed the world the fossilized eggs of the dinoeaur. a reptilian denizen of the Gobi des- ert. some ten million years aga
 On the present expedition the search for the lower animal fos- sils will be secondary and Andrews and his colleagues will concentrate on man. or his prehuman ancestors. Recent discoveries in China and Mongolia have fortified their hope that remains older than any yet known will be uncovered.
 Origin of Man
 we believe man originated in Central Asia" Andrews explained, because we know that for millions of years it has offered conditions most encouraging to his develop ment. This plateau was high, lightly forested, with an exhilarat- ing climate, providing the stimu- Jus for the dawn man to develop and so forward. Ii is also the oldest continuously dry land in the world, because it remained above the waters while the land masses of Europe and America were periodi- cally rising and falling
 We know. too. that the area We arc to search escaped the glacia- ton of the ice ages in Europe, dur ing which It was a. humid region, becoming dryer as the ice receded, becoming semi arid, savannah country"
 Andrews said the discovery of the Peking man. or "Sinanthropus," announcing in 1926, and other finds near Picking. had definitely. estab- lished the existence of human forms in Asia as old as. If not older than. any others known to science. The Picking man is represented by two human teeth, found in the western hills near Picking. which competent scientists have pro- nounced to have belonged to an eight year old child that certainly lived as early, if not before. the Java ape man. "Pithecanthropus Erectus,' to whom has been as- signed an age of half a million years.
 The Dawn Man"
 The dawn man. which the pres- ent expedition hopes to find is be- lieved to have existed even earlier, back beyond the Pleistocene geo. logic era, in the Plocene of q mill lion years ago, or oven the Mtocene or Oligocene of two and three million years ago.
 Andrews first objective is an uninhabited area, 800 miles north west of kalgan, on the southern edge of the Gobi desert, where his previous expeditions found deposits Of a geologic period which best promises to yield evidences of the dawn man. if they are to be found. It is country much like the "bad lands" of the Dakotas. deeply eroded by the storms of cons.
 While the main body Of the ex- petition is working these deposits Andrews with one or two of the motortrucks with which it is equipped plans to make an explora- tory tour to the west to map out other areas for search. Following this course the partly will probably moe on l,2oo or 1.5Oo miles 10 the west of their first halting place, describing huge ellipse south of the Altai mountains in their jonr- ney out and back. The party num- bers 36. ten being occidentals, the rest native helpers. They expect