THE OLDEST SKULL.
X-KROFESSPRS DISAGREE. *. ."' ; .' LONDON,'ApriI 22. Regarding -the 'report of the recent discovery, by'"Professor .Mackenzie of a skull;.antedating any known human reamains at Cohuna, near the Murray River, 'Dr. Grafton. Elliott Smith said the final judgment'depended on the evidence provided by Professor Mackenzie, but he was . inclined to think there was not the remotest-possibility that anything found in Australia could be •as old as the Piltdown skull. The Piltdown man was living in -Europe hundreds of thousands of years before human beings could reach Australia. It seemed incredible that- anything approaching-, the age'of the Piltdowp. man could be found in Australia where the oldest human remains were probably not more than four or-five thousand years old. ,
Professor Mackenzie' was highly competent, but at the same time this was rather a large order to sw&llow.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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