EARLY MAN 



19; 



"Atlantis," at the bottom of the ocean, and his imple- 

 ments may have been entirely of wood and so have dis- 

 appeared. 



Burial would hardly have been known to such a man, 

 and bodies may easily have been destroyed while other 

 animals living in the water were covered by mud and so 

 preserved. Be this as it may, man has existed ages, so long 

 that the mind of 

 his modern rep- 

 resentative can 

 not grasp it. 



The same un- 

 certainty exists as 

 to the land in 

 which man first 

 appeared. Some 

 place it in Asia, 

 others in Africa, 

 and the recent dis- 

 covery of a sup- 

 posed connecting 

 link beween man and the manlike apes has induced many 

 to consider the East India Islands of Borneo, Java, and 

 others to be the original home of man. Eugene Dubois 

 discovered on the island of Java the remains of an animal 

 referred to, which he believes to represent a form inter- 

 mediate between man and the manlike apes. It is called 

 Pithecanthropus erectus. It was found in the beds of the 

 Upper Pliocene. Some authors believe it to be a huge 

 gibbon ; others that it is really a link between these forms 

 and man. 



Fig. 190. — Fossil Man. 



