PREHISTORIC MAN
CRADLE OF MANKIND. AMERICAN’S CLAIMS. United Press Association. —By Electric Tel egraph.—Copyrigb t.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 31. Alonzo Pond, an American archaeologist, representing Logan Museum, claims the discovery of the cradle of mankind in Africa, and within a month will bring to America the skeletons of fifteen individuals who lived and died, but probably never fought, twenty thousand years ago. Pond insists that the real Garden of Eden is located in Algeria. He lias pieced together the bones of these men who lived before history was recorded. They closely resemble the men of today, ■; . Pond hopes to be able to trace mankind's migration northwards through the sluggish ! Nile- and Nigel* 1 Vaßeys. into Europe. .. One skeleton en route to America is that ot a man more than six feet high. The others range .from five feet four inches to six feet.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1929, Page 6
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