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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10763, 10 May 1911, Page 6

In Europe, said Professor-Dawkins in London, recently, there Is ample evidence of the existence of the river-drift man and the cave-dweller in the caverns and in the river valleys of the Glacial Age over the whole region between the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Europe in the Ice Age was invaded dryshod by the earliest men from the south by way of Gibraltar and Sicily. The climate then was continental in character, with cold winters and hot summers. The river-drift man's implements mark his existence in North Africa, Palestine, Arabia, and India, and oyer the south and middle zones of Europe as far north as Yorkshire, crossing on foot from Germany and France. The cave-man, marking an advance in culture, lived almost wholly in the regions north of the Alps and Pyrenees, and his weapons are found north of Yorkshire. The caveman probably came into Europe from and retreated into Northern Asia at the close of the Ice Age. The Ice Age was undoubtedly of vast duration, and the antiquity of man is correspondingly great, but, coucluded the . professor, "the more minutely I examine the events that have taken place since man appeared in Europe, the more profoundly, am I impressed with the vastness of liis antiquity and with the futility of any attempt to compute it in terms "of vears."