ANCIENT SKULLS
Two skeletons dug up-by Public Works employees wiuje doing formation work on Hollis Road, "Waikino, oh Tuesday, have aroused much local interest (states the "Christchurch StarSun.") The. skull of one reveals :a forehead having very little height or width and receding to a" very marked degree. The chin is abnormally prominent. When the skull is held in an apparently normal position the lower part of the forehead is further back than the bend of the jawbone. The skull is in a good state of preservation, but the rest of the skeleton was Scattered. It was found in about two feet of clay near a hilltop, arid alongside it was another.skeleton in an excellent state of1 preservation. This skull was normal, but the legs had apparently been tied to the "neck at the back. The site of the discovery is not a Maori burial ground, and there are no signs of Maori occupation in the neighbourhood.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 4
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157ANCIENT SKULLS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 4
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