ORIGIN OF MAN

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1783, 17 July 1926, Page 6

ORIGIN OF MAN

TRACING HIM BACK. Mr S. Hubbard, curator of archaeology, Oakland Public Museum, contributes to the Dearborn Independent an informative article on pre-historic man and the records of the rocks. Recent examinations of the Hava Sapal Canyon in Northern Arizona Teveal some {startling disclosures, and -which may necessitate the complete revision of the accepted theory that America is, geographically speaking, "the new ■world." Professor Al'ex. Hrdicka, writing on the origin and antiquity of the American Indian, says: "The anthropologist of to-dlay knows definitely that man evolved from the near primates there is aboundant material evidence to that effect, regardless of other considerations. These primates mu£t naturally have approached man in all important respects, a condition that could be realised only by the most advanced anthropoid iapes; but the existence of such forms in America is very doubtful."

Because there were no anthropoid apes in America he assumes that man could not have originated) there. Instead, a few Mongol tribes dribbled across Baring Strait, and, finding a manless region, they quickly populated, the whole country, and became the progenitors of the American Indians. And now comes the western scientist, making an independent investigation who boldly proclaims, apes or no "apes!, that the white races originated in Western North America. And he is beginning to believe that the Chinese people originated there also. He helives this white race established the Maya civilisation and constructed the pyramids, temple's, and altars whichdot Mexico and Yucatan, and that they invaded Asia and Europe by way of the sunken continent of Lemuria, the mountain tops of which are the numerous peaks scattered through the Pacific Ocean.

The discoveries of the Doheny scientific expedition into the Hava Supai Canyon in Northern Arizona would seem to indicate that a race of people existed In America antedateing the American Indians by several million years. (When Cortez asked Montezuma who built the palaces in the city of Mexico, and the pyramids on the plains, he replied, " Lofe Toltecs," meaning "the Builders." In other wordte, a race of people preceding the Aztecs When we asked the Supai Indians who made the inscriptions on the walls of their canyon, they -replied, " Couda-pah," meaning " people a long

time d^ad." Apart from the discoveries in the Supai Canyon, is /there any basis for the belief that man may have originated in America? Captain Alan Le Baron.'a trained Egyptologist, is working on the theory that the plateau, roughly occupied by the State of Nevada, is the olddst land on earth. There are geological maps which sbow that the land in question was an island some 40,000,000 years ago. At jthat time the Gulf of Mexico was connected through to the Arctic Ocean. And because from that time to the present day this land has never been submerged under the sea, he argues it is the logical place to look for the origin of man, for the reason that his development has not been interrupted by any of the cataclysms of Nature. Confirming this, he finds Egyptian, Babylonian, and Maya characters inscribed on the walls and in the cavea of 'Nevada; and, strangest of all, Chinese characters of a pre-Manchu dynasty. Ats an indication of the great age of these, at the base of one carved cliff, an. excavation 22 ,feet deep into cemented! gravel did not reach the bottom of the carvings. !Dr John Endicott Gardner, author of Chinese dictionaries and authority on the languages of the Orient, identified, these marks as the oldest Chinese writing yet found in the world. For more than 3050 years the Chinese have been seeking the origin of their own writing, and Dr Gardner [ says that the Nevada characters are ' closer in resemblance to the most ' ancient form of symbols preserved in China than the characters now in use by the Chinese people. He further ' asserts that this discovery is one of the greatest contribution's to philology the world has ever known.

In Captain Le Baron's own words, " If man is a product of evolution, 'then the logical place to seek the first trace of him wosd be in ithat part of the world where evolution could be carried on over many millions of years uninterrupted, and under climatic conditions favourable to his growth. A geological check of the Whole world, showed that there is but one place, and that is the plateau of Nevada, where my expedition uncovered a civilisation of such archaic antiquity as to stagger the imagination. "Subsequent discoveries proved beyond doubt that Nevada andj parts of California were inhabited prior to the glacial. period by a race of people who were civilised to the extent of being able both to carve and paint on stone the events of their lives." Evidence such as this along the Trail" tends to confirm the belief

of the leader of the Doheny scientific expedition that the symbols found in the Hava Supai Canyon are the most ancient records of man so far fou|nd in the world.