A PREHISTORIC PIGMY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 6

A PREHISTORIC PIGMY.

DISCOVERIES IN AMERICA. -laf; v. * ; < ■. ; '' * ff; , „ ( INTERESTING CONJECTURE. JBt EtsoMic Telegraph —Copxaiaat}. (United Peess Association.] (Received 1.30 p. m.) New York, February 11. A skeleton of a prehistoric pigmy was discovered in asphalt beds in the neighborhood of Labrea. ' Local -scientists declare that the skeleton belongs' to the* Pleistocene period. The bones of a mammoth hear wore 'found -hear 7 the ‘skeleton. If «"a later examination hears out the' # scfhAti.sts’ conclusion, the skeleton' will' he-the oldest remains discovered in North America. In reporting a debate on “Piltdown Puzzles”, recently, the Manchester Guardian threw some light upon -the subject of the pleistocene and other periods. The report states : They heard of “modern” man, of “Pleistocene”. man, and of “PHocene” 'm'a'n, and :|ondered who they werej and wheiAliiey lived. It became apparent that “modern man who had lived within the last’%>;ooo‘ years; some of the members of that group seem ancient enough to most of ns. Pleistocene than, the" casual visitor discovered, Weife the.‘people who lived in that epoch which' preceded '"the modern period—in brief, the people who lived during the glacial ’ period—the people 'Who lived when the greater part of M Thatneg Valley—from Highgate Hill on Abe north to the'Crystal Palace' in the south—was being slowly dirt out and a site prepared for the ftiture Metropolis. Pleistocene man, it seems, appeared some' 500,000 years ago, 'his period- endecf about” 15,000 years since. The Pliocene period of the' earth’s history preceded the Pleistocene epoch. The Pliocene ,is usually regarded as having been a longer' period than the Pleistocene, ahd is usually regarded as covering a period of at least a million of years. One’s brain reqls when it tries to travel across such a desert of time.