LIBYAN FLINT AGE
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
OF WHEAT STALKS. THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 7, 9.5 a.m. CAIRO, April 6. Miss Clayton, of Thompson’s archaeological expedition to Northern Fayum, discovered at Chindi in a depression a few miles from tho modern cultivated zone 20 buried baskets made of wheat stalks, containing wheat blackened with age, and wooden sickles with threo flints, proving to belong to the Libyan flint age, 5000 years before Christ and. 2000 years earlier than the previous discoveries. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 7
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88LIBYAN FLINT AGE Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 7
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