CRADLE OF LIFE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 285, 5 November 1925, Page 9

CRADLE OF LIFE

ON ASIATIC PLATEAU. EXPLORERS’ DISCOVERIES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 5, 11.20 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. Roy Chapman Andrews, oh returning wit'll the American Museum of Natural ’ History’s third expedition into the depths of Mongolia and the Gobi desert, declared: “We have received confirmation for the first time of our theory that all life originated and thrived on the Asiatic plateau which is now the Gobi desert. Vo found traces of the human beings who lived 20,000 years ago These people migrated to other parts of the world, but the cradle of life was there.

“I believe they were related to the American Indians. I am convinced that a land bridge ,onco connected Asia with North America, and that a great sea extended in paleozoic times through the entire central Asian plateau from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean.” The expedition's numerous discover--, ies included 27 fossilised jawbones, all together in one spot, the fossilised skull of a two-horned beast, probably millions of years old; and forty egp's of the prehistoric dirpsaur, more than ten million years old.

The expedition ' “covered approximately 5000 miles, 2000 miles of the route traversing unmapped territory. —A. and N.Z. cah}e.