PRIMITIVE MAN.
ANOTHER SKUI4L FOUND. (BI CABLE—PBEBB ASSOCUTIOK—COPtBIOHT.) ' (AUSTRALIAN AMD N.Z. OABLU A8SOOIATIOB.) BUENOS AYBES, February 26. Dr. J. Q. "Wolf, formerly attached to the Canadian geological survey, and now explorer for the La Plata Museum, announces the discovery of a fossilised hunian skull of the Tertiary period, during excatttions in Patagonia. The lower jaw, is missing, 'twit otherwise the skull is almost perfeot. The eye and teeth sockets are clearly defined, the cranium is long arid oral, and the forehead extremely law and sloping- x . \ message from, London yesterday said workmen, digging in Saint Ouen', a village in Jersey (.Channel Islands) unearthed a prehistoric skull, almost without a' forehead, resembling the one discovered in Java in 18&4, which was reckoned to be 500,000 years old. Sir Arthur Keith suggests that,the Jersey skull dates from about 1500 years before, Christ, and that the absence of the forehead is due to the fact that the man was an idot.] . 7
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17701, 1 March 1923, Page 7
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