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Into the far reaches of southeastern Asia, Java, and the Phillippines a 25,000 mile ancient man hunt started from New York yesterday, when Dr. and Mrs. Hellmut do Terra sailed for England on the S.S. Manhattan...
From Burma the expedition will travel by airplane to Singapore and Bandeong Java. There, joining forces with Dr. Halph von Koenigswald, they will explore new sites along the Solo River, where last year von Koenigswald discovered the skull of what is probably the oldest human in the world, a baby of 700,000 years...
...Java is rich with evidence of both prehistoric man and the animals that lived contemporancously with him, it offers an opportunity for the expedition to compare the age of early man there with finds in other parts of the world...
Particularly interesting to de Terra is the likelihood of an ancient bridge that may have existed between Malaya and the Asiatic continent which would shed light further on early human migrations between India and Java...
Final scenes of field work will be at the Phillippines, where a survey will be made of the coastal plain near Manila reported to be rich with fossils, perhaps those of the same animals which were recovered with a Java and Pekin Man. If true, such a find would be most valuable in the study of animal migrations form southeastern Asia toward the new World...