THE GOBI DESERT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19448, 6 November 1925, Page 8

THE GOBI DESERT

BIRTHPLACE OF MANKIND WHERE HUMANS LIVED 20,000 YEARS AGO SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. Mr Roy Chapman Andrews, who is returning with the American Museum of Natural History’s third expedition into the depths of Mongolia und the Gobi Desert, declared: “Wo have received confirmation for the first time ci our theory that all life originated and thrived on the Asiatic plateau which is now the Gobi Desert. We found traces of human beings who lived 20,000 years ago. These people migrated to other parts of the world, but the cradle of life was there. I believe they are related to the American Indians. I am convinced that a land bridge once connected Asia with North America and a great sea extended in paleozoic times from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean.” The expedition’s numerous discoveries included twenty-seven fossilized jawbones, all together in one spot, the fossilized skull of a two-horned beast probably millions of years old, forty eggs of a prehistoric dinosaur more than ten million years old.

The expedition covered approximately 5000 miles, 2000 miles of the route traversing unmapped territory.