FOSSIL SKULLS.
DISCOVERIES IN JAVA,
’Ey Telegraph--Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association • (Received December 30, 11.35 p.m.) THE HAGUE, December 30. Professor Dubois, discoverer of the pithecanthropus remains in Java, informed the Royal Society in Amsterdam that he also discovered two fossilised human skulls in the Wadjak district of Java. As tho result of Dr S. A. Smith’s account of a skull found at Talgni, Queensland, Professor Dubois re-examined the Java skulls, and finds that they are very like the skulls of Australian blacks, though more massive, with more massive jaws. He concludes that Java in ancient times was occupied by an Australoid stock. One skull, apparently of a woman, bad a brain capacity a seventh larger than that of an Englishwoman of to-day.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18601, 31 December 1920, Page 5
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125FOSSIL SKULLS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18601, 31 December 1920, Page 5
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