Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrews', Roerich's and Filchner's separate expeditions in Mongolia; expeditions on all the continents...
...Chinese archaeology in the last thirty years with the exception of prehistory, is mainly due to work done on the outskirts of China, by the Japanese in Core, a, by the French in Indo-China, by British. German, French, Japanese, and Russian missions in Chinese Turkestan and in Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian...
Observers feared lest this local engagement prove part of a Soviet project to coerce the chieftains of Inner Mongolia and North Eastern Manchuria into federating themselves with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Russia...
...Expedition travels 5,000 miles. Explores; maps much new country. Discovers new geological formations, fossil deposits. Finds residence sites dune dwellers, culture everywhere, yielding thousands stone implements, decorated bones, shells, tooth necklace, indicating that 20,000 years ago Mongolia more densely populated than today...
...Andrews came to two important conclusions: 1) That titanotheres, large horned quadrupeds which became extinct in America in the early Oligocene period (geologically fairly recent), lasted for a much longer period in Mongolia; 2) That mastodons were, in the same period, en their way from Africa to Western Europe, Siberia and North America...