Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — The Antiquity of Man. [ARTICLE]

The Antiquity of Man.

It has been known during a hmg time that in western Europe man existed during the glacial epoch. We now know that the great ice age consisted of different glacial times separated by interglacial times, in glacial times tbe snow line dropped 8,000 or 4,000 feet below its present level in the Alps, whereas in interglacial times it lay about 1,000 feet higher than at present Thus the temperature seems to have been higher in tbs' interglacial periods than it is now. There is abundant evidence, in the opinion of Penck, that man existed during tbe beginning of the last glacial epoch. There is some reason for thinking that at least 20,000 years have elapsed since the last glaciation and that the man whose jawbone was found in 1909 near Heidelberg lived 200,000 years ago.—Scientific American.