5000-year-old brain found
(N.Z. Press A‘»n.— Copyright) PORT CHAROLOTTE, December 22. Florida's chief marine archaeologist, Dr Carl Clausen, said yesterday that labo--ratory tests had established that a skull which he found in salt springs contained a large portion of a human brain preserved for an estimated 5000 years. The skull was preserved in the hour-glass-shaped sinkhole, over 200 feet deep and almost devoid of erogionproducing oxygen.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32798, 24 December 1971, Page 7
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665000-year-old brain found Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32798, 24 December 1971, Page 7
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