New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1929, Page 6

NEW RRITAIN DAY HERALD SATUBD%Y IUIY Primitive Giant Versus Mo in a Thrilling Last Stand How Workmen Building a South African Road Accidentally Unearthed the Skeleton of an Eight-Foot W) hu‘e Man Who Foughl Gallantly for @ His Life ¢ Thousandsof (- Years Ago. - vas cut off. Other More recent ~m devour the discoveric fated buffalo overtook one great stride as he path to freedom, i p him to death beneath the men Cua e spear must have world with mastodon an nimal sank ex- the mammot his foe. By were of ion and condition of greater ph the bones, wi I Tai ¢ ical propo through the a vere than men to piece together this th llmg sto ’Inro*l;zlmut the world anthropolo- eletons of constructing every the super-men life within their have been S ring to solve found in all £ the dim past, Wh parts of the S0~ c,xl'l d missing link is ever world. proof to the Not long ago a fo: regard on C y of a primitive n ! \ The Tragic Finish of of men 3 size of which indicated that the wearer 2 { the Primitive Man’s has alr its fac was a giant at | .! u;‘ut feet tall, == LU Last Battle Against the that a ce of men of far 2 was found in the S a. The N African Buffalo—in stature than any known to e footprmt showed a pri shoe, pre- AN S the Drawing Above lived and fought with pr rie 2 sumably made from some hide, stitched \ 3 Dan Seaith, mals of over carefully to conform to the foot. Th \ Celebrated Artist, Has The_ facts of man's primitive exist- proved to experts that the wearer be- et ence flave been d for s upon longed to a fairly high order of intel- > Scene of the Encounter the discovery of skeletons, fossils and ligence. An ancient pueblo village in : Which Happened in bones of men who lived thou nd Aztec, New Mexico, vielded the mum- ‘ S ihe DiGn of Tima Near even millions of years ago. Skelctons mified body of a or described as - \ & SN the Spot Where the gl / City of Pretoria Now Stands. — N one of the huge animals whose skeletons were also found in the pool, Another Monster Enemy of Man—the I D k R ;. : . The gruesome spectacle of a Charged, Puny Human Beings < i 2 a saber-toothed tiger, consid- Had 16 Klea Before His Atiack: y - o : ' \ | ered one of the most vicious of g O S - A the prehistoric carnivores, pre- X % ¢ : % SN 2 5 7 " sented itself when the perfectly E VIDENCE of a mighty bat 3 g i 3 o s 8 & 2 i N preserved skulls of the two ani- o = Sk ‘ & e : | mals were dug from the depths R Pk / 3 . : . ? 3 | of the rich oil pit. Ol e S . B Ml . i 3 R 4 S ek X il/hes The long tusks of the tiger ’ 5 & 5 5 had completely pierced the jaw of the mastodon. The animals had thus locked in a terrific 4 d : kRS struggle that had brought Keta develan : : ’ i | i death to both of them. RS 5 » ¥ f & - s = 4 s il In view of the difficulty of it ‘-‘em"r\;hlt" m 2 by =% > v : . R A procuring food, scientists be- 4 e y 3 4 R lieve many of the prehistoric men were cannibals, A man thought to have antedated the oldest inhabitant of New Eng- land by at least ten thousand years was found in 1914 at Ipswich; Conn. He was discov- . 3 i % i N ered in a gkitchen-midden,” or hoi s i > % v XA R o oy % gy 2 ) d $ shell mound, the structure of N 4 : 5 S ; : % \ 4 FEIT, : 5 ] which indicated the number of Gtemeat) : : " ; i, o Wk 5 < years that he had been buried. before thei s of { i e > o ; ! " This Drawing Shows the Difference in LD "}e mound was an ancient and the gigantic man. The skeletons |} it . h " Size Between a Normal Man of Today and {ireplace, and beside it & num- were lying close t Y I : e ; : C © " the Primitive Giant Whose Bones Were pfgc;’; Bt "”‘ N n "):‘:\fg: :;‘;Ei’d.ntv v it St . ; s ) Discovered in South Africa. barestand le»d e lentiiat e R £ L Home Life in % : i 3 - lieve that the earliest residents Prehistoric Times— % ¢ R £ 4 3 v ble giant who would ¢ n ters, From a Painting by L b The Photograph at ¢ ead and shoulders Thi £ m simply Paul Jamin. 4 s Left Shows the Horns above the average man of a onal proof of man’s con~ ? T 5 " today.” tinuously dramatic ktrugv:lp for life in treasures of those ancient days b he had con- been found in Quered the material world around Buffalo, Which o1 » and in America, M- Measure Five F ¥ E ons and bones of n the beginning _man had. onlv his Inches from chistoric m\. mals show ihat isting have, of a Prehistoric Bison, 4 5 h or North Ameérican Tip, in Comparison with the Skull of a Bison of the P, ¥ s rro r proporticns tha % he cculd vanqui ¥ The crude ar proved his first o He leamned to use le mastodg dinosaur and t mammoth, have not ond harden'ng it. ived the test ugth came 1o “him of time. from the food ne u-nrnej 50 ¢ook, and For de s his mental aliies hecams of the anc When u h pear it to battle in ciose quariers. come thia danger hc devised the bow and ' led him to at- make 0§ apear vard meu's present ¢ Prehistoric man used it fi rough arrow and hat newly found fire, and from that {i on he was abla to match hig against his enemies, no matter how large. The conflict between man and beast ments of his ancient was shown further by pr. caves throughout ti dmwing: with bits of bous or si W t » man at generaily 'depicted anima! 4 Made on the Walls of Caves in t & woman. ‘they crudely portrayed dueis between Europe and America by Prehis sts Thousands 1 s thought s men and beasts correspording to the of Years Ago. —a Deer 1 Horsej met a violent death mighty last stand of the South African C—Horses; D—a Bison; E—a Horse. as the vietim of giant and the monster buffalo. L Z Z N, L e