HISTORIC SKULL FOUND.
Some Interesting Deductions TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS OLD. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Router’s. Telegrams. (Received June 13. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 13. News from Gibraltar states that Miss Garrod (student on tho Institute I’alcontologie Hutnanie of Paris), has discovered a frontal bone and other portions of a human skull, belonging to a youth embedded in Ihe hard esc tufa, with typical liioustenan implements lying under twelve feet of deposit, containing similar implements. The skull is the same ago and type as the Gibraltar .skull, discovered in Forbes Quarry in ISIO. The skull is estimated to he not less than 20,00” j ears old.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 June 1926, Page 9
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105HISTORIC SKULL FOUND. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 June 1926, Page 9
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