PREHISTORIC MAN.
AN AUCKLAND DISCOVERY. . ' iBT * TELEGRAPH.—PRESS association.] 1 ; Whanqarei, Monday. Mb. Fbaser, county engineer, found at - Sandy Bay, on the east coast, a quantity of moa bones and a human skeleton —a high 'type of man, not a Maori. In the lower strata he found the skull of a low-type full'grown man. This skull is much lower in the anthropological scale than the famous Neanderthal skull, the crown of the skull being almost level with the eyes and the bone very thick. Mr. Fraser intends to tend the specimen to Australian scientists . for examination. The low type of skull had apparently been buried for thousands of ifessi" ■' - : -
New Zealand is not a likely country, in the opinion of Professor A. W. P. Thomas, for I tie finding of low-developed skulls. The lowest type of skull that had ever been .found was in Java, said the professor, and the probability of discovering such remains was far less m this country than in Aus- . tralia owing to the extent of the seas dividing lis from the Malay Archipelago. Of jcourse, Professor Thomas added, it would be necessary to see the skull before forming > definite opinion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14237, 7 December 1909, Page 5
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