In Borneo
Prehistoric Man^s Remains Found
By RONALD KINSEY
17" UALA LUMPUR—Did modern man H spring from somewhere in Asia instead of the Middle East as many scientists believe? One of Southeast Asia's leading archeologists thinks it's possible. Tom Harrison says that the commonly accepted theory is influenced by the teachings of the Christian faith, which originated in the Middle East with its legend of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden.
Harrison, curator of the Sarawak Museum (in Borneo), is one of about only five qualified archaeologists in all Southeast Asia and has spent more than a dozen years digging into prehistoric man's past in this area. His work in the caves of Borneo resulted in a vast store of artifacts which he says has irrefutably dismissed the old theory that modern man migrated to Southeast Asia within the last 10,000
to 15,000 years.
His biggest' discovery was finding fragments of a prehistoric skull in a Borneo cave in 1959. It took experts at the British Museum in London two years to piece the fragments together. The skull turned out to be the only evidence of Homo Sapiens (thinking man) to be found in Southeast Asia, and, Harrison thinks, the oldest among the three or four found in the world. Its date was definitely established by the carbon-dating process as being at least 40,000 years.
That grinning skull, which still remains in the British Museum, poses the question ： Did modern man originate in Asia?
As a scientist, Harrison understandably was reluctant to commit himself and as a modest man he refused to call what he believes "a theory." He said, however: "It is quite probable
R. H.  (BOB) LEE, B. Comm.
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