GREAT AFRICAN RACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20656, 30 August 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)

GREAT AFRICAN RACE.

Once more there is something new out of Africa. Sir Arthur Keith lias had surprising things to tell the Royal College of Surgeons of tho old people and the modern in that continont. Bringing together the discoveries of many learned men he is able to say that the ancestors of the former natives of Kenya were not Negroes. There has been an enormous extension of the Negro races in Africa, but the original people of Kenya were Hamitic, supposed to be descended from Ham, one of the sons of Noah. They had fine features, in common with other Jewish peoples. These ancient Kenya folk had resemblances to an ancient European people, the Cromagnons, and both were tall and well proportioned, with long heads and big brains, and when Croniagnon man was in power in Europe the Haniitic peoples were the wonder-men of Africa. One of tho surprises of modern research, says Sir Arthur Keith, is the discovery that the men of the Old Stone Age, who hunted with rough, primitive implements of stone before the refined art of the New Stone Age had come into existence, were men of unexpected development of brain and body. Those men were the forefathers of civilisation.