THE “ RIVER-DRIFT ” MAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3225, 23 May 1911, Page 5

THE “ RIVER-DRIFT ” MAN.

EUROPE IN THE ICE AGE

In Europe, said Professor Dawkins in London, recently, there is ample evidence of the existence of the river-dritt man and to cave-dweller in the caverns and in the river valleys of the Glacial Age over the whole region between the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Europe in the Ice Age was invaded dryshod by the earliest men from the south by way of Gibraltar and Sicily. The climate then was continental in character, with cold winters and hot summers. The river-drift man’s implements mark 'ins existence in North Africa, Palestine, Arabia, and India, and over the south and middle zones of Europe as far north as Yorkshire, crossing on foot from Germany and France. The cave-man, marking an advance in culture, lived almost wholly in the regions north of the Alps and Pyrenees, and his weapons are found north of Yorkshire. The cave-man probably came into Europe from and retreat"! into Northern Asia at the close of the Ice Age. The Ice Age was undoubtedly of vast duration, and the antiquity of man is correspondingly great, but, concluded the professor, "the more minutely I examine the events that have taken place since man appeared in Europe, the more profoundly ami I impressed with the vastness of his antiquity and with the futdlitv of any attempt to compute it in terms of years.”