The Washington times., 1929-01-26
.OIIpc'IlvER
SAHARA'S
BURIED
CITY
Ry JAMES !. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, Jan. 2e d.N.s.J.-
DR.. Aionzo Pond, noted archaeol'
ogist OF Beioit College. sailed TO.
day for Africa in search Of the,
Garden OF Eden. the birthplace Of
man.
Il hope my explorations viii help
settle the woodworking problem Of
where man originated, as wen as
throw more light on the migration
and development Of mankind. said
DR.. Pond in an exclusive interview.
Heads For Sahara
eve will carry on excavations in
the northern edge of the Sahara
desert in Algeria. in the region
southeast Of the town Of Tebessa,
an old Roman city IN North Africa.
W. shall excavate enormous de-
posits left by prehistoric man who
lived in that region $4,000 years
ago.
the birthplace OF man WAS IN
Africa. or In the region northeast
of Africa--that is. in Asia Minor"
The trail leading back to the
Garden of Eden has bothered scien-
fists ever since the first archaeol
o&ist l,eaan working in the old
world fields.
Where wHs il?
Win DIR. Pond find it,
Was Il in Asia Proper, Asia
Minor or in Africa. as DR. Pond
believes7
Opinions Differ
Scientists differ on the question
Roy Chapman Andrews has long
searched the Cobb Desert Of Asia
for traces of the original man. DR..
Pond. incidentally, accompanied
him on his 1928 expedition.
Other archaeologists have dug u
fhe Holy Land from one end TO
the other seeking the Garden OF
Eden.
And still others have probed IN
southeast Africa to find the source
OF wealth which the Queen Of Sheba
Izyished on King Solomon.
T)r. Pond sailed on the Cunard
liner Alauilia, accompanied by his
wife. Mrs. Dorothy L. Pond. and
their 1O.month.old baby girl Chc-
n1ingwen, an Indian name, meaning
Smiling Eyes.
DR.. Pond viii be joined in Algeria
~ a French colleague, A. ]. De
BRUCE, who has had "a years ex.
perience in archaeological work IN
Northern Africa.
This is DR.. Ponds third expedi-
ton into Africa and his fourth for
the Logan Museum at Beloit. wis.
He is assistant curator Of Logan
Museum The present expedition is
financed by Frank G. Logan, vice
president Of the Chicago Art lnsti-
tute.
'In other expeditions. we ex-
cayated four or five tremendous
deposits and made q number OF
interesting discoveries, said D'.
Pond. rWe found that the people
who lived In Africa many thousands
OF years ago were hardy race.
Lived On Snails
They lived almost exclusively on
snails. Their weapons were made
Of flint and bone. There Was no
don1estication Of animals. The pre
historic men did not 80 in for agri
culture,
Apparently these ancient people
were nomads entirely. They supple
niented their snail diet occasionally
with large animals which they
bagGed with their crude weapons
we found the skull Of an or which
measured So inches between the
tips. they peobabiy hunted in
groups.
Human remains were also found,
Dr. Pond related They were studied
by DR.. Fay-C Cooper Cole. of the Uni.I
yersity or Chicago. He found that
even Ia this stone-age epoch in
North Africa the population was
already mixed ard showed charac-
teristics Of the people who live in
southern Europe even in modern
times.
''These modern characteristics
were mixed with some very primi.
tive characteristics. Or. Pond ex-
pIained All this indicates. that
while Europe was backward at this
stage, Africa was in the stone age
However, there was q greater mix
fure Of races in Africa than in
Europe. and the tremendous ds.I
posts we found IN Africa indicated
dense population
Hopes for Much
"Our problem now Is to trace
out e possible, the route by which
the early Europeans moved into
Northern Africa and Of the route
taken BY Africans migrating to-
Europe.
s'TEe flint and bone implements
we find IN Africa strongly suggest
q relationship with Europe. We
hope to determine exactly what that
relation Is. We hope to get a
cross section Of this North African
prehistoric life.
II hope we can throw more
light on the development Of man
kind. skeleton remains show the
changes that take place in the
human body. The stone and bone
implements give key to the IN
tellectuaI development Of the pre-.
historic man.
The tremendous deposits in
Africa lead scientists to believe that
somewhere In Africa we may find
the birthplace Of man. The location
OF these deposits. after q number Of
them have been explored and ex.
anined. may give us the route Of
his migrations and so lead us back
to the point Of or!gin--the Garden
OF Eden.
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