PREHISTORIC SKULL
SOUTH AFRICAN DISCOVERY
CAPETOWN, February 5. Tho prehistoric skull found at Taungs, in Bechuanaland, promises to excite the scientific -world. The discovery is due to Professor Dart, an Australian, who, with other anthropologists, believed that Africa, and not Asia, would provide the “missing link.’’ Local scientists confirm Professor Dart's conclusion that the skull is much earlier in evolution, than tho Broken Hill skull.
Professor Dart said to-day that tho anthropoid ape would have been, sufficiently intelligent to leave tho tropical forest for the untoward environment of tlio Kalahari l>esert. It could have used weapons of oflcnoe and defence, and lived on fruits and roots.
Tho Broken Hill< skull was found at the Broken Hill mine in Northern Rhodesia. A cavo in the mine, 90ft below tho surface, has yielded a great quantity of bones and primitive implements. In 1921 a skull (lacking the lower jaw), and other bones were found, which had belonged to a creature more primitive, though of later date, than tho “Neanderthal" man.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19405, 14 February 1925, Page 10
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