Last Lectin-.' of Prof. N. II. Winchell. at Cedar Falls. Iowa, April 24, 

 1914, a week before his death: read also from this revised copy (by 

 Warren Upham) at the monthly meeting of the Minnesota Academy 

 of Science. February, 1OT6. 



Tl I E ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN AMERICA COMPARED 

 WITH EUROPE 



By Newton Horace Winchell. 



I trust that no one will suppose that the age of Man in 

 America can be expressed in years, with any degree of accu- 

 racy ; nor that in this brief discussion any effort will be made 

 to equate the biblical account of man with the facts of science. 

 These two records may constitute two parallel series, but they 

 were written by different authors, for different purposes and 

 from different starting points. 



For a few minutes it is the intention of this lecture to 

 sketch only the scientific facts that bear on the age of Man in 

 America, and more specially to review in a somewhat sys- 

 tematic and logical order some recent discoveries which have 

 an important bearing on this question. Some of these sci- 

 entific facts are not strictly recent discoveries, but have been 

 known for twenty or more years, and the discovery consists 

 rather in learning their significance when correctly aligned 

 together and read as a whole ; but others of these facts are 

 new, and it is largely because of these late discoveries that 

 we have been prompted to put into a systematic rearrange- 

 ment some of the facts hitherto well known. 



European Primitive Man. 



As European remains of primitive man are the most re- 

 markable and also the best known, they are to be taken as a 

 standard for comparison with American. Hence it is proper 

 at the outset to glance at the results of the latest discoveries 

 in the eastern continent. 



The finding of the Neanderthal skeleton, the Engis skull, 

 the man of Spy, the skeleton of Mentone, followed in late 

 years (1907) by the Mauer jawbone near Heidelberg, the 

 skull of La Chapelle-aux-Saints (1908), the skull of Krapina 

 in Croatia (1899), of Le Moustier in France (1908), Forbes 



