THE OLDEST LAND
CENTRAL ASIA'S CLAIM
NINE REASONS IN SUPPORT Reasons for the belief that Central Asia was the first populated region "ere recently explained by Professor George S. Duncan, Professor of Egyptology at the American University, Washington. saj r s the “Evening News,” of Loudon. These nine reasons are: The oldest human remains, not less than 500,000 8.C., were unearthed in Java, once a part of the mainland of Asia The oldest human teeth were found south-west of Peking. Artigacts of not less than 150.000 B.C. have been discovered in Mongolia. Two anthropoids, gibbons and orangs belong to Asia. Asia is the homo of the highest organic life. Ancient, sand-drifted ruins, not yet explored, suggest an ancient civilisation.
Asia has been a dry land for some -0,000,000 years. .Its great size with varying life conditions are suitable for primitive man.
Asia is centrally located for migrations to other parts of the world.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 11
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153THE OLDEST LAND Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 11
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