Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1918 — New Chapter In Anthropology. [ARTICLE]

New Chapter In Anthropology.

It Is an extraordinary chapter In anthropology that Prof; Wood-Jones, of the University of London, reads In the Tai gal skull and associated remains discovered in New South Wales in 1889. The antiquity suggested is far greater than that of the European ancient skulls, and, instead of of the anthropoid apes, the human race is shown to have been so highly developed as to have boats and domesticated dogs before the apes appeared. This skull, distinctly human and highly mineralized, was In a stratum with extinct pouched animals. Bones of dingo dogs were found In a similar stratum, and with them bones of extinct pouched animals that had been gnawed by the dogs. Only pouched animals were known in Australia at the time of Captain Cook. Australia -has been an island since pouched animals were evolved, and it i» argued that the Talgai man must have come in a boat with his family and dogs.