IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
SKULL UNEARTHED IN LONDON. 15,000 TO 20,000 YEARS OLD. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Sun Cable). LONDON, October 22.. An ancient skull was unearthed in Leadenhall street during excavations to a depth of 26 feet. Professor Elliot Smith expressed the opinion that it was that of a woman of 45, black, and able to speak. It possessed a snout in the absence of a bridge nose. The woman must have been born 15,000 to 20,000 years ago at the end of the ice age. It is an important discovery. The skull is slightly smaller than the lowest type of Australian aboriginal. The thinness of the skull indicates that it is nearer the modern type than the Piltdown or Neanderthal remains.
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Southland Times, Issue 19690, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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120IMPORTANT DISCOVERY Southland Times, Issue 19690, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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