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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hence the students of early human types must make the most of what they have. Two famed fossils of which much has been made are Peking man or Sinanthropus, found in the caves at Choukoutien about a decade ago by a Chinese scientist named Pei Wen-chung; and the Java apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered on the banks of Java's Bengaman River in 1892, by Dutch Anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Both of these oldsters appear to have lived at the beginning of the Glacial Period-roughly 1,000,000 years...
After Dr. Black died, the work at Choukoutien was taken over by bald Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Peiping Union Medical College. For years Dr. Weidenreich has insisted that China's Sinanthropus was more primitive than Java's Pithecanthropus, which he regards as a backward offshoot of the Neanderthal men who emerged later in Europe. But Professor Dubois now considers his Pithecanthropus to be so primitive as not to belong to the human family...
...Dutch-owned island of Java has been a rich hunting ground for investigators of the human family tree. In 1890 Professor Eugene Dubois found the first fossil bones of the famed apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe and the Rhodesian men of Africa. The fragmentary skull of a child, christened Homo modjokertensis, appeared to be in extremely ancient ground, but its features were too undeveloped for exact anatomical comparison. Two years ago primitive tools were found in Java, including points, scrapers, cores, and hand-axes typical...
...Washington last week a new find was announced which may either clarify the situation or obfuscate it further, and is certain to be argued about. Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigsvald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, had found on the banks of the Solo River in Java several teeth, a lower jaw and skull fragments of a humanoid creature which he took to be considerably older than Pithecanthropus, and therefore the oldest human or subhuman relic ever discovered. The lower jaw was "very heavy, with large teeth having resemblance in various characters to several of the most...
...able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java, laid low by an attack of pneumonia that endangered his life...