DISCOVERY IN EAST AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13465, 11 May 1914, Page 3

DISCOVERY IN EAST AFRICA.

t . Dr. Haris Reck, of the Geological Institute of Berlin University,.has discovered at Oldoway, in the north of German East Africa, a human skeleton. At present all Dr. Reck can say is that the man is roughly 150,000 years old and belongs to diluvial period of Africa, which synchronizes with the ice period of Northern Europe. It is a wonderful skull, and wonderfully , preserved. It is long and narrow, with ,an unmistakably negroid jaw, and the back of the head finely doveloped and deep. Tho ribs and breast are akin to those of an ape, but the skull is unmistakably ■ human. Thoro are indications that the muscles of the neck were enormously strong, and that the man did not walk quite upright. His thirty-six teeth are complete and beautifully preserved. There are marks upon them as if they had been filed. The formation of the eye-sockets and the bridge of the nose is akin to that of the primitive African bushman. The man was found lying on his back, with his head turned over to the right, his hands before his face, and his legs drawn up in a crouching position. Dr. Reck is almost certain that the position is not one of burial.—"Times."