AN INTERESTING FIND.
APPARENTLY BURIED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. [by teiegbaph.— press association.] WHANGAREI, This Day. Mr. Fraser, county engineer, found at Sandy Bay, on the East Coast, a quantity of moa bones and a human skeleton of a high type of man, not a Maori. In a lower strata he found the skull of a. low type of a full-grown man. The skull was much lower in an anthropological scale than the famous Heandei'thai skull, the crown of the skull being *hnost level with the eyes and the bone very thidk. Mr. Fraser intends to send the specimen to Australian scientists for examination. The low type of skull kad apparently been buried four thousands of years.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1909, Page 7
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117AN INTERESTING FIND. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1909, Page 7
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