Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-03
FIND NEW CLUE
TO EARLY RACE
Excavations in Chaldca IL
Eliminating.

How the first clue TO the reel
founders of civilization. In the VAL
ieys of the Tigris and the Euphratps
rivers. hung on the finding Of a ne
ciliar brick and a bit of painted pot
terry. was told the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Science
In Chicago recently by Prof. r. 8.
Speiser. of the University OF Pennsy1-
sania. as part of the romance of
modern archaeological research.
No Sherlock Holmes of fiction ever
exercised more potent powers OF de-
ducfion than the university men and
their colleagues Of the British mn
scum, iong engaged I'm %excayatIng the
site ut -fr Of the Chaldees. Abra-
hams home town.
Beneath IL layers of debris, the
dumped refuse of many a vanished
people. there were found a number
OF bricks. fiat on three sides ronnd.
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 Sumerians In the country of tha
fertile crescent Professor Speiscr
declared.
At no other period was this mn
ferial in evidence he said. I'VE
know that this type of brick was lot
developed on the spot. but was I'm
ported from elsewhere. II II mneh
too elaHnsy and impractical to have
replaced the convenient f~at-tonped
shape Of the previous age without
any pressure from the outside
I'm other words the p%lano-convey
brick was introduced by a erplp of
Invaders who for nne reason or an
other. probably on account OF superior
numbers or greater power. became
the dominant force In the land.
aBnf we can go even farther than
hat without fear Ut contradiction.
1t Is possible to determine the gen
eral direction from which the new
coner arrived. The plano-convex
shape Is obviously Initiative ~ stone
models Builders are nnsnrionslv
conservative and archafzing In the
choice Of their material Having
hetn accustomed to stone Md finding
themselves Of n sudden In n region
of this material. they PROMPTLY ron
frired tn make artificial stones af
clay instead of taking full advantage
of the new medium.
lie we have absolutely clear
proof that fhe newcomers were
folk. This means that thew
could only have come from the north
or the northeast Translated into
terms OF race and language. and with
what knowledge we hare m this sub
Iect from historic times. 1t il safe 10
det1uce that n impractical invaders
we're NOT Semites like fhe Snmerians.
Tor these we're almost invariably To-
TO the south and to the west.
A~<N
and not Indo- Enrnneans. who were
to appear on the scene prior to
3On h. C.
They must have come from the
mountain districts to the northeast
" possibly from even more remote
mountain From the distinc-
i've painted pottery Of the time we
an declare that these people occu-
lied A wide area extending from
'orthern Syria all the way to Balu-
the enter of gravity being
In the Zagros mountains and
he Iranian plateau.
The people In question were be-
'ond any reasonable doubt mqrn-
'ers OF the same larger group that
still dominant In that highland
one. a group commonly associated
rith the Alpine race