Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — The Antiquity of Man. [ARTICLE]

The Antiquity of Man.

In his lecture In Washington, Professor Penck said that It has been known for quite a long time that la western Europe man existed daring the glacial epoch. We now know -that the great Ice age consisted of different glacial times separated by interglacial times. In glacial ’times the snow line dropped 3,000 or 4,000 feat below Its present level In the Alps, whereas In Interglacial times it lay shout a thousand feet higher than at present Thus the temperature seems to have been higher in the Interglacial periods than it is now. There is abundant evidence, says Professor Penck, that man existed during the beginning of the last glacial epoch. There is some reason for thinking that at least 20,000 years aave elapsed since the last glaciation, and that tbs man whose Jawbone was recently found near Heidelberg lived -200,000 years ago.—Youth’s Companion.