DID AMERICA PEOPLE THE WORLD?

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7941, 16 January 1906, Page 3

DID AMERICA PEOPLE THE WORLD?

"Heretofore," writes Mr Daniel T. Pierce, • in the Cosmopolitan, "the question of where the American red Indians came from has rested in the airy realms of speculation. Nobody knows, least of all the Indians themselved, but; everybody wanted to know. Ttiere have always been, however, plenty of conflicting theories as to tbe origin of man in America. . . . The emigration seems to have been from the interior of America westward to tbe Pacific coast and tbe/>ce on to Asia. Mr Harlan J. Smith found ample evidence of a remarkable change in tbe type between the prehistoric Indians of southern British Columbia and the preaeut tribes. The former had long and narrow faces and elongated heads, while tbe present tribes have very wide and heavy faces and short, round heads. . . . Man is very old in America—perhaps he has been here fully a hundred thousand years, if not more. • . . . The discovery of tbe 'Lansing Man' skeleton in a deposit at Lansing, Kansas, several years ago, proved that man lived here at a very re 4note period. What took place during these great cycles? Was it from the tribes which came into existence in this country that Asia was largely people^ and' was th> primitive culture whioh grew slowly here trans-

planted into Asia, and then to Europe, to become the civilisations of great historio peoples? The investigation enables us for the first time to answer this question with a confindent affirmative."