PREHISTORIC MAN.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14308, 20 March 1912, Page 9

PREHISTORIC MAN.

As to the ago of the prehistoric human skeleton found near Ipswich (and referred to in a paragraph in "The Press" a few days ago) Professor Keith, the anthropologist at tho Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, says:—"There is every evidence that this man lived long before the placial period. During this poriod L. igland was covered with a great ■ thickness of ice. Finally this melted and a layer of debris was deposited. It was underneath a deposit of this sort that the skeleton- wastound. Hence tho man must have lived before tho ico ago and before tho rivers wero ■ formed.' The finding of this skeleton strengthens the belief that the evolution of man was an infinitely longer process than we originally thought. At one time the beliovors in the, evolution theory thought that man's develop-: ment to his present state might have taken • something like 10,000 years. Later they put the period at something around 20,000 years. The differences, if any, between this man's bony frame work and modern man's are so minuto as-to provo that evolution must have taken hundreds of thousands of years. This discovery shows that England was inhabited as early as, if hot earlier than, any Continental country."