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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1903)
1 . , 1 O 4- 1 ' IMioto Taken h a Staff Artist While tlic rCpiirilll t() 1 rOUllCC cl OPCCIIICIC ! Machinery tor "l!cn Ilnr" Was llciu- Installed TaF- X- "fc.' " ' y.jl..'Mai"'""MtK inst u.i.im; imti; i nii: ii,y i iwi i: nn: p wok m.. 1U .S!l x vVZ 4$ MASTER MECHANIC HAGUE OP THE "BEN IIVR" COMPANY. I I TTINT. ..lVN TltM'KS I'nll THE CIIMtlnT l;, : C;..i:S T 1(1 Recent Discovery Supposed to He Our Ancestor, the Man-Animal (Cop right. '.'', I.y Amli'i w F..rsyth.' I I ilCiVtl'LMJV ..f tlw. r..iini.ilitu rf I ti ti ski ll tons in it ciivc hi Croatia, I I l... ..rttl.l ni,.. llil.- ivill tin- win in in ' llnl WilIllllTflll know IrilKl' of tllC Tiannv that -a as man, or nearly man, in the lost acs hi'twrrn th.' Khuial period. More than l'i'o.iiihi years ol.l were these hones. iU'l'orilittK to the latest ealelllat rm of seii nee. Yet shatlereil alel erniehliil as they were, they have enahleil paleon oln Kists to firm a pielutv Itiat is supi'esi .1 to be sutiiiwhat like that strange. will ?reatnre that roamel the primeval woiM then a man-animal. How iliil litis creature look? Science an stu rs that it was a heinn far In yoml the greatest of the man like apes of tinlay in intelligence ainl appearance, yet iliviil. il Y a slill gnat'f chasm from the man of today. So far l Imv man we know him was this thing; that lived in the inn t glacial period thai si.me specialists wjo have examined the hones declare that tit's early man was not mop ly different from the present man in kind, hut actually differ ent in species. The man of the Croat ian rue had a remarkaldy long head Ii was large in eir tii 1 1 1 f Ti m e, far In ynnd the size of the api 's ..I.. .11 I 1 ; .. r...... .i-.u ftot Drill l.rrt'iil nml Ii i u ntUU. Ill liU l .!.-, inn uii'i i'i mm miii ii... nose wins wide and Hat !iko that of an ape, ' hut ho had furrows between his eyes above his noso which the np has not. The flat face had neither forehead n.: chin. In both of these reatur(s the man i nimal of the Croatian rave was behind lvi2... ;uie His iaw shot ha k ahi lot'v a 'I' the jaws of lean-muz.led animals Dvir -or: ( deep-set eyes lay imnicnse bony In np. ' accentuated the hi. U of a for. In i !. n"1 back of thifi ugly half-human and I' animal head did not meet the inch 'I''1' he gentle, beautiful curve wi h which '-' "'nil of the present human beiiu; n..t- T!e v ck. It stuck o.lt In y ei 1 . I.e tieck 1 ' tied it at a sharp angle. i' Use te. th were set in the moll'll You ' 'feature. Th" t . . ' h in th" In k "Ca:"t VouMi were eviii larger than th".-- "Y. 1 I 1 All til" teeth. W. !'. set i. I p ill " N'"' i' ws. '' 1 r' " " v of this pritiii'iM man was long gs were short a foi m dir. n v ' ' t he form of t iie in i si ni adult ' arms w ere longer t ban t h is" i f Hut they in r" not nearly as inns of t h" a p" real ui e sn a k " l-'mm fact s detail.. I in this article th it awn tha 'he Croatia a man ' ' ' v slight I.!,.. .1 . !g" of . p .. ,.), lie power of 1 itlgl.ag". let t: 'Y li T'n ' i i r itid bis US" .1. 1 U-. 'I of l.lt.gll.l T! i.. pi' No' hit:; f .1 it r- Mr e i' I'.rh.lpS he fe, . i' a h, j, I e loiilel et t .1 bu rt! it,g by sin h 'MphtuinK or sun lea:. It r"iiiires no gnat stretch of imagina tion to believe that the Croatian cave man was not intelligent enough, or at bast educated enough, to produce his own tire, for the remnants of his In uise'iold g Is that were found in the cave with his loins fail to show that he was capable of much intelligent product i a in sis. His w.-apons were as primitive as the club that tin gorilla uses when he tears a huge brain h from a tree ami lays about him in v.raili No sign of fashioning or attempted fash ioning is to be sc. n in the bone and wo .1 mauls and cudgels thai the man of Croatia used. He had arrowheads made of stone, but they were praetiially the stulles !'i i lo ir original form. The man of the Croatian cave had gone far beyond lb" ape in hi.- 1 i I He was lie longer a herbivorous an m il He bad he. come carnivorous. Ind. "d. Ik had heconi" a cannibal if the sign'- have been '( ,i i aright. Winn prof. Virehow dis ussed the Noun deiuhal skull, the famous skull discovered in the .Wander valley ca" near Inissel dorf, in Cermany, that was hailed at once as the kll of a genuine missing link, the long sought ape-man, the professor's ob jection to accepting it as anything of tic kind was reinforced wi'h the .binand that science produce similar skulls an I remains before any deduct ions be mad". The discovery in Croatia has done p. It has done more. It has ahsolu'ely es taolMied the antiiUity of this primitive man. The conditions of th" excavation in th" Croat ian cave were so favombl. that it was possible to take every step with minute and painful ohs. rvatn e of all the tub s of palcontologi. al and g ological re search There is no possibility that one epoch has been niislakin fur another The find was made m a cave on th" top of the steep hanks of Krapiuna brook, near Krapin.i. in Crea'ii Tin c.im was -a Ill y-fivo fi et aboV" til" pi'. S II' led of ill" stream In the glacial j r i . ! that rave had hi en level with the wa'if. and an ill. unci ivable sll'i li li of tune ha I been in e. led till th. sl'.w cur-, of irosioii had Mit down the i hanie 1 to I g pn sent level. The cav. was a .avitv in sand.-ton.-. The lb or of n w.i- env. n d with houbbr and - 1 1 i 1 1 1 ii' lift 'In I' ,v 'he btook in 'he day- p rhips in in-ii v.arsag ', when its w nii rs washed tin .a v After th" tiaii r ! d and left the cave dry. du-t and iblci- mold ring rocks and so on began u, till tie cave, un'il a' lis', aft. I age hid pib 1 "ti ag" and epo. Ii on i pub. th" ml hi-h r.-achc'l to the vary top of the place Yi t during all th' - ni;kii"ii ws in. n '.-.-.J the i ave for -le I 'in-' l-'i'st of all inn" this H' i"iiv 'hi' a a - - o far as I. now h iir. of t.i.l.i . i an ' . !' ' Ii ti - man. Saiel and du-' .1 1 '!. ; r I i '. slow decomposi' ii ti f.l on hi. t mains Tln-n came other crea'ures far'h. r advanced in the slow progress to being human, and dust and decomposition seitled on their b.die.s and their tracks, too. So, when Prof, (loriaii iv ic-Kraiuherger of Agram. began to dig. be uticoviie.l epoch after epoch. H" found ashes, i harcoal, burned sand, roughly hewn Minis and al most Li"iu botii's of rhinoceros, cave and brown bears, wolves, deer, mammoth sta'-is, horses, aiierochs. beavers and wild hoars. These bones in I. as easy to in ad as 'I," hands of a clock They pointed straight and true to the perm I in which tin y had hci n ib'positi d. At last the excavators got down to the louir stratum. I'niil then tiny had found no human bom s. Now lin y . anie upon a catai otnb That henr stratum appeared Id he line immense tin place. In it lay the boms of none but human beings Almost all wi re broken and splitiien d. evidi in 1 y hv violence. Most of them showed signs of burning The hones were found to l.oloiu; io ten individuals, adults and children The only theory that the scientists hav been able to formulate as yet is that these I'll persons met violent deaths and that the Mayors then cooked them and ate thorn. The horn s wi re gath. rod with rigid ob servance of all the safeguards known to science. And as soon as tlnv had In en sin lied sutlicieiitly, it was known that the great find of the young twentieth century ha I b. "ii mad", for there remain. .! no doubt that the primitive man of Krapina was the same as the man of the N"atnbr valley and the man from th'' flelgiau eave of Spy. This mean' that th" same form of man had dwi lied at one time In eastern as well as in western Europe, and with one blow it established the correctness of the belief that the .Watch r valley man and the Spy valley man were truly creatures who n pn -Mined a gradation between I lie man of to In and 'In an ieiit animal form. lion far i'. iii.iv ii In. in the ape or i vi n :( man hi- g rada 1 i on mav In no on. .an - a y Prof, -sor- S, hualt," an 1 Kb.;.", h la '.' ;ir i t'odu' i d faits whi'h ipp'ar in .r.v. po-i';v Iv Mm' loan in 'In- 'ortu nf 1 ! c i anno' haV" . Ms'. ! f I. tin In ' in1' r j I 1 1 i a 1 pi r m I W h i ' v i r on iin i f "i ' h i ' 'i is a ir-n'me tha' was nm man a- w. 1 no w man now Tin in in of Snv . tin man of 'la , and. r villev and the man of Krapina m fe -. i . 1 1 i n a I iin s I '. i h p the s Hue f"t' in wa .l-t:tll tin II ill o'h'1' pal "- '.'' 'In WOI'M Th" famous ap. nan of .lava, pitlncan ' l.rop'l - . r- "I II p. i - i II w a t he V ia' I" a n i - i of of t h i - man in t" i tig. I low ol I ( h..- Pn,!'. - or pen. k . at '', la -1 m . ' i n g of n a ' u t a 1 1 ts in Karl . . I lid dull II ' h ' la A I hat t he I'irat mi, of In gl i . i il p. rr.d bad Inn a' b a ' ' c . , , i The , a r I i r s' one a g. : b i . no' , n . p... b but tin rely a - ' g. of d. v lopm. n' I., thought was cast c r'ainly at b ast 2H0.000 visit, "We " ill ' i ' '! iii'i- ot tin -peeiis 1-nni'Ii ..- fall ill Pulop" as Sev eral huiidnds of thousands of viars." he declared Studios of skulls and skeiei.ms froin the last Stone age, which is supposed to dale back from 7, mm to Jo, nun vears. show no noticeable differences between man of thai remote time and the man of today. This in itself shows how imuo iis" must have been the time thai did afford n) port unit y for si riiol oral i hang. s. Ilovv grout tlnse changes wire, and Imiv i minimus cum e.ii. ii 1 1 v inu-I have b. n tin time thai elapsed b.tu..n the existence of the "missing link" and tin . xi; ti I of Ihn man of Krapina and Ihe arrival of I In man as we know him. is shown hv the skull of the creature. The skull of Krapina I lunger even Mian the skulls of Spy and the Ncamb r valley I ir longer I han a ti v i b i n K ' 1 1 1 It is as low as it i- lone II is mi much lower than the low. si human skull of to, la. that there is c slahlh In d this fact ah. ml this ancestor of man II" was sejiataied from the man of today bv a far greater dif ferell. e that! Was the dit'f. ti l between him and the ape. Structure of hones, tin- immense lhnk ness over the eyes, a ili ei'bd cont t act inn in the shbf. of the Krapina skull beyond the eves. are all I llal'a- I. li -ties of III. monkey. Put llnre arc other . ha i a i i a -1 ns in tin Neander -alley and Spy iiml Kiapina skull; that differ vastly from th f 'In moiik. v Si inn of th.se di If ring inn i o ' i i t i ': pm n ' to reviTslon to forms still more primitive t ban I In- in . ti 1 y . w h i b ot In i - s how a d. v lopmi lit Inward tin- human being of inn own type These divergencies in oppm-ite direct ion , have bad European sciei.ii -is t., reach one important com lusioti that Is thai tin piimitive mail, 'he man of Kiapina and Spy and tin N. an I. i valh . is not a "mi iiig link" t " t w ' n inn ii an! a pi In the Krapina man tint" is di'-'itu't f arrow- In t w . "ti tin i v. In o . r t In "I di of ' In in s,. Pi a l .. ' u: nl b n acter that does not occur in apes It is one of the facial -signs thai mnln " a face lunk !l:l llij. t.t The ev i - of tin mill of lit i p i n i a i 'a .-.f.iit. 'I'h" f-on'.il pan ! In 'in . , In . n il.'i'i loped much li ' i ill a' Iv. tic 1 1 fore, t ban in ' he ap. v ! . . v . s a i a i b together st I il inr pi . ul ia i it v p. in t he t. -h .. the prilllit ivi t n li'ill". P i an i-tall: Inl fact that i he t- , t), of t In mod. m bum . n hi in:.' ai. d g- m r i'-l I'volution of'.t. n . - - g. tn nation as a In lp in i'c I i". . - -Tin tilth of the man of Krapina are gin at. . v. i; than thit e i f the up. Even the fr. n ti'th have two roots, while onlv few of our 'ii th have tunic than mn The grint in .n'uallv are largir toward the bail:, whil" our g 1 1 nd. rs are mole or b - s st un' d and diminutive That and other . 1 1 1 : : i r in - a' out the teeth of the man of Krapina ate found In the teeth of a prehistoric ap. .li-. ov. red In thfi mloc-pne formations In fh rmatiy. the d i j opi i hecus. This ape man. or man ap". ixisle.l and vanished many ages before lln time of glacial man. So the missing link is to he looked for in Ihe dim past far In ynml the time of the dwellers n the Croatian cave. In ihe Kiapina skeh tnus the iiirious for ward .nivalin.' nf ihe bums of the upper thigh was pronounced p was this same nivalin, that hd to the conviction that ihe lanioiis ;li. Irlnii of Java was a form leiwieii annual and human being Prof Yin how alleged that this ciirvauire was not ii, 1 1 ma I , but that it was due to dis a s i , and he protested ngaim-1 th lup- ii. in i.r any theory In I on it lie ad- milled that if it wire natural it would prove an, iin nm , ally that the Java lln le loii nally was that nf a man ape form and not merely the skeleton of a human being, very old, but still in all essentials like present human beings. Put he would not admit lhal the curvature was naiinal Well, the Krapina skeletons all show the same cuival inc. ami il is no longer to he d. milled that It is natural The ll.lgian scientist. Kralpont, believed that Mr so ski I. inns showed thai this man l"i in ei.nbl nm walk uprighi m at least del 1 1 1 1 walk upright habitually. ' n In I i o in i- t - do not agree wi'h I his. I'h. y s.iv I hal I he : I udv of I he I s dues tu.l pi Mty sin h a min lii mn put tin y all .ii'iii that I In so primitive man i features III not walk i I i i I a lei freely a we do The very In I Miat I hep- 1- gs wire in irdinaiilv -boil, while their bodies were long, would hav" mad" i in cess irv for I In in to walk in a shambling, clumsy, more or esn u in i nub ul a hie way 'l'he beavv. crude hi,..- joints show that I hey i mild not po- illv hav. si ra ight.iied out Mnir k mis or moved a ia ilv as vv i i "Tin ir pew - r of i p. . . h probal.lv was not i " nil'. . -1 1 1 . 1 1 io ih 1 1 of Mm pi i nt man ' n I u I lag. ii "iur organ of rp. i oh. particularly tin tungue. are governed by a group of mu -i Ii In. h an fast, m d to a Iittb .hmhh p in-. I grow Mi of bone on t Im i ti -1 ' I e of lb. .bin I ii Mn ant hiopoid a pn, w Iin lul- 'In pn a . r of :i I I 1 . il 1 iti speech . " litel a Cfii.it.' in that pin. e in t. ad of a niowih of bom The I sann groove we find n the man of Krapina "I In re i - anmh. r proof. Prof Walklndf ' l M u ii n Ii ha - how u by means of I he Po'ing'ii mi licit wluicvir m use b - uil I nig or pn . on act on bones, certain thick 'iiim in I tough' nine of the bom s incurs, P. mi- in Mn d.n .Hon of Mi" strain. In the i .'a of human beings these thickenings nrr i'i"ioiime. ul,. u n t tin- mus. bs of the . leans of s pec. I, lie Put in th" anthropoid I" Mn ' ihaia.iiri ins are missing cu lm !v In Mn- man of the Neander valley ' I. ml faint traces of them. If we ran ptovr this theory slill further by examina tion of the jaw boms of persons who wen I mn dumb, we shall have u great light on ihe beginnings of our articulate human sprcrh " ANHKEW FORSYTH E.
