Months hence when the scientists have finished studying the skull and ther relics we shall know a good deal more" about prehistoric man than ever before, much more than anyone has been able to glean from the Java ape man, the Piltdown man, and the Neanderthal man put together.
Meanwhile, in this informal talk Jaround the skull we gathered that from the namber of benes found. in the Choukoutien eaves, not one but ten or a dozen primitive human must have been buried in them, though whether it was their home or their accidental sepulchre is not yet known. It scerne certain, how-fever, that this prehistoric colony had no tools or weapons and did not. know the use of fire. Without. woepons, without warmth in a bitier climate, how then did they survive to maturity? Wild animals surrounded them. Hyonas, for certainty, lived in these very caves. Wild: buffaloes and sabre-toothed tigers roamed these hills and even those nearer " slopes 14 miles. from Poking where diplomats now have their peaceful summer retreats.
temples round which nowadays no. animal more dangerous than a rabbit is ever seen. Here is u mystery. to be solved and one stone axe [would be a great help to the layman who is impatient to know how a prehistoric family kept house.
But the scientific world is. more! than satietied with its epoch-making discovery. The skull already proves, so much, The fronted swelling shows jan advance in brain power on any human relies hitherto found, while the teeth testify that the creature who owned them could give a powerfal bite.
Though the skull of the Peking Man is nothing: much to look at from axtivtic point of view, even an tant outsider gels @ distiner
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