The Paleolinguist Bulletin Summer 2023
Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, 18 April 1937, The American Weekly, Page 7.
Hunting for a Frozen Cave-Man
(Moscow, April 5) To find a perfectly-preserved caveman, even to the color of his eyes and skin as well as the clothes he wore, on a certain fatal day some 30,000 years ago, is the hope of a Russian scientific expedition, led by Professor P.N. Kaptereff, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, to "Nature's Icebox," an area of eternal frost far up in the Siberian Arctic Circle.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 1925, Page 17
PREHISTORIC MAN.
DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS.
LONDON, Feb. 20,
Two Russian scientists (Bontsh and Osmo-lovsky) hare announced the discovery in pre-historic caves at Simferopol, in the Crimea, of two skeletons of "Neanderthal men," who lived 40,000 or 50,000 years ago. They have also found skeletons of prehistoric animals and a number of flint implements.
[The fossilised remains of part of a cranium and some long bones found by workmen during 1856 in the Neanderthal Valley (Rhenish Prussia) represented a discovery of the first importance to the science of anthropology. A few years before a fossil skull bad been found at Gibraltar, but no attention was paid to it until after the discovery in Prussia. The skull is now supposed to be that of a female of the same species as the Neanderthal remains, which are those of a male. Among anthropologists the remains are
generally accepted as those of a genus Homo definitely differentiated from the species Homo Sapiens to which all living races of man belong. These remains and a remarkable series of skeletons found in France in the first yearss of the present century are considered to give a complete picture of this brutal extinct species. Modern research reveals Neanderthal man as an uncouth being with a large flattened head, a coarse face, short body, and robust limbs. The broad shoulders carried an abnormally thick neck, on which the head was projected sharply for-ward. The hands were large and coarse. It le considered clear that Neanderthal man's brain and hands were incapable of the delicately skilled movements that are the prerogative of Homo Sapiens, and that enabled him to compete with the brutal strength of the Neanderthal species. The latter disappeared suddenly from Europe before an invasion of immigrants belonging to the species which has survived till to-day.]
James C. L'Angelle Undergraduate Research University of Nevada, Reno Summer 2023
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