AN ANCIENT SKULL.
NEWS OF SCIENTIST'S FIND
BONE 20,000 YEARS OLD.
(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.! LONDON, June 12.
News from Gibraltar states that Miss Garrod; a student of the Institute of the Paleontologie Humane in Paris, has discovered the frontal bone and other portions of a human skull belonging to a youth, embedded in the hardest tufa, with typical Mousterian implements, lying under 12ft of deposit, containing similar implements.; * The skull is the same age and type as the Gibraltar skull discovered in the. Forbes quarry in 1840. It is estimated at not less than 20,000 years old.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17059, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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99AN ANCIENT SKULL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17059, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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