Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-08-02
FIND NEW CLUE
TO EARLY RACE
Excavations in Chaldea IL
Eliminating.

How the first clue to the real
founders of civilization, In the val
legs of the Tigrls and the E~uphrates
rivers, hung on the finding OF a pc
cullar brick and a bit of painted pot
terry, was told the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science
In Chicago recently by Prof. n. 8.
Snelser, of the University of Pennsyl-
vanla, as part of the romance of
modern archaeological research.
No Sherlock Holmes of fiction ever
exercised more potent powers of de-
duction than the university men and
their colleagues of the British mu-
scum, long engaged In ~exeavatIng the
site of Ur of the Chaldees, Abra-
hams home town.
Beneath IS layers of debris, the
dumped refuse of many n vanished
people. there were found a number
OF bricks, fiat on three sides round
ed on the fourth, deposited there at
least 1000 years ago by a race once
thought to he the Sumerians. build
ers of the Tower of Babel.
But the novel building material
was used long before the arrival of
the Sumerlans In the country of the
fertile crescent" Professor Speiser
declared.
AT no other period was this ma
terial In evidence" he said. Eve
know that this type of brick was not
developed on the spot, but was Inn
ported from elsewhere. II Ia much
too clumsy and impractical TO have
replaced the convenient f~fat-topped
shape of the previous age without
any pressure from the outside
an other words the plano-convex
brick was introduced by n grntip OF
Invaders who. for n reason or an
other. probably on account of superior
numbers or greater power. became
the dominant force In the land.
"But we can go even farther than
that without fear nf contradiction.
It Is possible to determine the gen
eral direction from which the new
corners arrived. The nlann-convex
shane Is obviously initiative of stone
models. Builders are VIGOROUSLY
conservative and archaIzing In the
choice of their material. Having
been accustomed to stone and finding
themselves Of n sudden In a region
Of this material, thew PROMPTLY con-
trived to make artificial stones nf
clay instead Of taking full advantage
of the new medium.
"Here we have absolutely clear
proof that the newcomer were
mountain folk. This means that they
could only have come from the north
or the northeast. Translated into
terms Of race and language. md with
what knowledge we have on this sub
iect from historic times. It IL safe 20
deduce that our impractical invaders
were not Semites like the Snmerians.
for these were almost invariably To-
Gated to the south and to the west.
and not Tndo- Turoneans. who were
not to appear on the scene prior to
5000 r. G.
"Thev must have come from the
mountain districts to the northeast
or possibly from even more remote
mountain area. From the distinc-
tive painted pottery of the time we
can declare that these people occu-
pied n wide area extending from
northern Syria all the way to BALM
chistan. the center of gravity being
clearly In the Zagros mountains and
the Tranian plateau.
"The people In question were be-
yond any reasonable doubt menu
bers OF the SAM larger group that
Is still dominant in that highland
zone, n group commonly associated
with the Alpine race"