REMAINS OF PRIMITIVE MAN
A further discovery has been made at Springbok Flats in South Africa, whoro quarrymen recently found fossil remains of a gigantic extinct buffalo and of a powerful primitive man, not closely related to the Negroid race. A tooth of the giant Cape horse has now been brought to light. This juxtaposition indicates that 'the ago of the Springbok man must be about 100,000 year#.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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68REMAINS OF PRIMITIVE MAN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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