PROFESSOR'S DISCOVERY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 74, 31 July 1929, Page 5

PROFESSOR'S DISCOVERY

CRADLE OF MANKIND BRINGING SKELETONS HOME. PEOPLE OF TWENTY THOUSAND! 'TEAKS AGO. (Received 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 31. Professor Alonzo Pond, the American archaeologist, representing the Logan Museum, claims the discovery of the cradle of mankind in Africa and within a month will bring to America skeletons of fifteen individuals who lived alld died bUt Pr °" bably never fought, twenty thousand years ago. Fond insists the real Garden of Eden is located in Algeria. He pieced together the hones of these man who lived before history was recorded. They closely resemble the men of to-day.' He hopes to be able to trace mankind's migration northwards through the sluggish Nile and Niger valleys into Europe. One skeleton en route t 0 America is of a man more than six feet. The others range from five feet four inches to six feet.—United Service.