CRADLE OF LIFE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16878, 5 November 1925, Page 8

CRADLE OF LIFE.

CIVILISATION BEGAN ON CENTRAL ASIAN PLATEAU. PREHISTORIC DISCOVERIES. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). (Received Nov. 5, 1 p.m.j SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. Roy Chapman AndreAvs, returning vyith the American Museum of'Natural History’s third expedition into the depths of Mongolia and the Gobi desert, declared; “Wo have received confirmation, for the first time, of our theory that all life originated and thrived on the Asiatic plateau, which is iioav tho Gobi desert. We found traces of human beings .avlio lived twenty thousand years ago. These people migrated'to other parts of the Avorld, hut the cradle of life AVas there. “I believe they Avcre related to the American Indians. I am convinced a land bridge once connected Asia Avith Northern America, and a great, sea oxtended in paleozoic times through tho entire Central Asian plateau from the Caspian Sea to the Pacilic Ocean.’’ The expedition’s numerous discoveries included twenty-seven fossilized jaAvboncs, all together in one spot, a fossilized skull of a two-horned beast, prdbhbly millions of years old, forty oggs of tho prehistoric dinosaur, more than ten million years old. Tho expedition covered approximately fivo thousand miles, two thousand miles of the route traversing unmapped territory.