EARLY MAORIS
DISCOVERY IN CAVE
SKELETONS AND SKULLS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
BLENHEIM, This Day.
Further evidence of early Maori occupation of the east coast of Marlborough was discovered last week by Public Works Department employees engaged near Aniseed camp. Portions of skeletons, four or five skulls, and
also several rounded and worn pieces of greenstone were found when several huge boulders near the entrance to the caves at Aniseed Creek were being removed in order to obtain rocit for sea protection work. A particularly formidable boulder was demolish* ed, baring the entrance to a new cave. Inside the cave were the relics. Two of the skulls seemed to be of great age. One had a remarkably low forehead, the measurement between its recession' land brow being not more than an inch..
The greenstone relics have caused some speculation, for unless they are water-worn pebbles, which seems un!» „
likely, an immense amount of patience must have, been exercised in grinding them out of so hard a substance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1938, Page 14
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