CRADLE OF MANKIND
THE REAL GARDEN OF EDEN
MEN OF 20,000 YEARS AGO.
AR OH AELOGIST ’S CLAIMS.
(United Service.' (Received 9.55 a.m.) NEIW YORiK, July 31,
Professor Alonzo Pond, the American arehaelogist, representing the Logan Museum, claims the discovery of the cradle of mankind in Africa, and within a month will bring to America the skeletons of fifteen individuals who lived and died, but probably never fought, 20,000 years ago.
Professor Pond insists' that the real Garden of Eden is located in. Algeria. Pieced together, the bones of these men who lived before history is re* corded, closely resemble the men of today. ■ Professor Pond hopes to be able to trace mankind's migration northward through the sluggish Nile and Niger valleys into Europe.
One skeleton en route to America is of a man more than’ six feet in height; The others range , from five feet four inches to six feet.
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1929, Page 5
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