Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — The Earliest Men. [ARTICLE]

The Earliest Men.

Recent studies by Professor Penck in the Alps, combined with those of Mr. Hugo Obermaler, a distinguished pupil of Penck, in the Pyrenees, have bed the effect of considerably shortening the estimate of the length of time that has elapsed since prehistoric man left the marks of hie presence In Europe. It now appears that both In the Alps and the Pyrenees there exist contemporary geological records showing four successive periods of alternate advance and retreat of glaciation. Heretofore it has been considered probable that prehistoric men dwelt in the neighborhood of these mountains during the last two invasions of the ice, but the new evidence is regarded as proving that it was only of the last, or fourth, glacial advance that man was a living witness.