100,000-Year-Old Man Displayed at Peabody

A prehistoric man, said to have lived in what is now the Mount Carmel district in Palestine a thousand centuries ago and brought to the University's Peabody Museum by the scientist who unearthed him, will be the most difficult to see of all the University celebrities for the next few months.

He-or rather his skull, for the rest of him has been apportioned out in Britain and Palestine-was assembled only for the press Tuesday, and then carefully concealed by Museum attendants mindful of his value as the oldest museum specimen at large in this country.

His next public appearance will be several months from now, when he will take a place of honor along with the Eskimo mummies, death masks of apes, and Indian arrowheads that are open to view in the hoary old building on Divinity Street.

Dr. Theodore McCown, of the University of California, who dug up the specimen, brought him to Hugh O. Hencken, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, whose office is in the Museum.

William T. Sanders '50, an Anthropology concentrator, used a vigorous and unprintable metaphor in an interview yesterday to indicate his skepticism at reporter's efforts to interpret the importance of McCown's priceless collection of Neanderthal bones. Sanders characterized one printed report as "a bunch of."