OUR ANCESTORS IN 25,000 B.C.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1923, Page 3

OUR ANCESTORS IN 25,000 B.C.

ICJI I C'l.KVl'.ii SrlKU'.li Y. LONDON'. February j Wi it tt-n v. about j i-thiMtif- toc-I:ni<-ttli-tios ; ti 1 with its mcute.ry vouched !.-t ];y 1 1 1;11 Iii•: 1 1 online ay mi uiithro;i--I,’iry. I’r* *IN --or l-:l li. »t Smith. Mr lb Oiild A. A! ;(■-!< i ■!:>'. N - •• A nvient .Mini in Hi it..: 11" ..-Acs a iiin-i ii: terc-t ing :u , :i>i:r t ; if (>;; I* more (t ■] n. 1 1 ‘ a necstnl's, 111 l..t‘ ; SiAy;- am! in .lays .1 «H to Homall I nil. s. Some -J'i.O il year- mi ago. it i' know nI mm she!. I. ii- t ln. tr' «• men j found in Ikitum in all e-scntin' leu- j tni cs v.»■;.■ ~i irnrn ty i 'I key would. dressed in modern till he, 1a- | thr.ti._rii ill., si reel > of a model'll e.iy | wit limit pa it if i>ln i' notice 1 a-iiiy taken ! ef I’ts-in. Oil ' lii'aii'.'li wits Jim lieuhiriy | mil anil liaiiusmiK', will, mi average height for tin' males « i nil. 1 'in. lid. : c rilio • t'l 1 ’l<>‘ ' -nr Kill. t Smith, ‘They me, ir it ii.vll.i;i y. I ij„t!i i liy-a ttlly and mentally ttjity lor I , , tlu- iiviwr.it ' | re-eiil-duy inhabitants of l.'itriiin 1 ." Tin M> I "nt'le • i.lt.we 1 from eiir f M.tint.s. There i- « ' ideiico i" skdiA ns ..I' tin* effects i>t i licimiiit isiri and nl had j teeth. Thev wore clever surgeons ami , e.'.iild trepan the sknll "ith success as j skulls have heon I'miud in which the , wound made l.v iroponning los healed, j Taev hitriad the dead with tales which | proved that their minds, like olio were j oeeiil ini with the mysteries id km and death, lit the months of some ol the dead found have keen green stone amulets. ,w in Kgyptiiin burials, to lar liaek as l? ICO h.e.. ami perhaps even lurtlier. The latest evidence from A-shnr. ill Assyria, tills even been tlioiiy'lit to suggest that tsan.mii. who ruled there OfjflO 11. C.. may have sent -hips to Britain : , He <'. I'.'i'ie!edl Kaprara (KTetek am. •‘tin. Tin hand beyond the t'pper Sea j (the Mediterrauenni. Tim explanation I may he that lie obtained control ol Urn rearket . to which the Iytslernels iv.!ia> Spain and the coasts of Northern i !•; .11-1 pe the o;es and pearls they had | t ,aiiid. It may be. therefore. that | Britain was visited by easterner- even before Sargon's time. British jet has keen found m very early graves in Spain, linking up Spain with Britain in days long before R.miul,is founded 1! me. Keen more interesting i- the fact that heads ot a peculiar kino colour, which arc identified a- undoubtedly of Kgypuan origin and as dating back ™ ! 5‘J| f c time between IAOO 8.C.. ami l'-’-M B.C . (or about the period of Tutankh Amena lutve been found in very ancient kn-ti.-h graves, am! can now be seen in pevizes Museum. \\'e arc oven told that “a vo e u ‘“ t overseas trade-route was in existence.' ! (, ir as has vet keen ascertained. | .here wa- no other source than Britain ! from which the ancient world could | draw the tin it needed in such immense j quantities ior its bronze.