The Discovery in California Considerable. interest "has been! aroused among archeologists by the that the million years ago had been discovered in glacial sands beneath the Pleistocene clay strata. One of the! foremost protagonists in the famous discussion that raged over, the Piltdown skull remarked to a "Morning Post" representative that "it was] really not possible to fix the age of the. skull to the limits assigned of 250,000 or 500,000 years, and added that many of. the skulls previously found in California had proved to be of no real scientific interest.
"It will be noted," he said, "that the report does not bear the name of any recognized man or recognized society, and in such circumstances one is bound to sceptical. Only last year, for instance, a skull. was found in Patagonia which excited much interest as a result of the first reports. This, on investigation, proved to be a' piece of stone, and the supposedly ancient wall "near which it was discovered, when critically examined, was found to be an. outcrop of basil which had been so altered by the weather as to give the appearance of human architect it Arthur Keith, the Curator of] the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, remarked that the statement from Los Angeles had possibility of being true, but, he added, "of all discoveries "of this sort, some 20 in number, that have been made during the last 50 years, not one has proved to be what, it was believed to be by the original] discoverer. In every case the remains found have been of the Red Indian type, but, despite this, there is a possibility that America will provide remains: of ancient ma The deposits of the Ice Age North America yield unimpeachable evidence of the existence of who made implement fectly clear that 4 very ancient period, and that there were human beings in existence long before" the Pleistocene! Age, and that they were very' widely scattered. America ut the time was quite accessible, as there were Iand connexions with it, and. that is why there is reason to' expect the discovery of ancient human types} in thet country. Before expressing] any definite opinion, however, one] must wait for fuller data as regards the discovery annouseed from Los Angeles.
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