Remains of the nearest scientific approximation to the biblical Adam, 60,000 to 100,000 years old, have been found near Mount Carmel, Palestine, not far from the traditional site of the Garden of Eden.
This was reported to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in a paper by Sir Arthur Keith, noted pro-historian, read by his assistant, Theodore D. McCown, research follow of the American School of Prehistoric Research.
This “Adam,” according to Sir Arthur, was more closely related to modern man in many respects than his contemporary, the Neanderthal man of Western Europe. The skulls and bones found belong to the Mousterian period of the Old Stone Age of archeology.
The finds were made in 1932 in the Valley of Caves near Mount Garmel by a joint expedition of the British Royal College of Surgeons and the American School of Prehistoric Research.
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