EARLIEST HUMAN SKULL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

EARLIEST HUMAN SKULL.

The oldest known human skull in the world was that of a London woman. "The skull," says Professor Elliot Smith, "is known as the Lloyd's skull. It was found in the blue clay 42ft below the surface during the excavations for the I new home for the Corporation of Lloyd's in Leadenhall Street. It is the skull of a woman aged between 40 and 50. I have ascertained that she was lefthanded because in the back of the skull ■are four lobes, or slight indentations. On the right-hand side of the skull the top lobe is bigger, and there is a deep ridge. This ridge shows that the woman was left-handed. In the Pekin Man the thickening of this upper lobe is on the left-hand side, which showed that he was right-handed. Taking a modern skull of a man of to-day it has been proved beyond doubt that the thickening of this lobe on either side of the brain determines whether the human was left .or right-handed. The skull dates back anything from 20,000 years to 100,000 years. This is proved by the geology of the soil in which it was found. The skull is unique and beyond price. It is earlier than the Neanderthal."