A VERY OLD SKULL
FOUND UNDER LONDON. WOMAN OF ICE AGE. LONDON, Oct. 22. An ancient skull was unearthed in Leadenhall Street during excavations to a depth of twenty-six feet. Professor Elliot Smith expressed the opinion that it was that of a woman aged forty-five, black, able to speak, extremely coarse and possessing a snout in the absence of a bridge nose. She was born in 15,000 to 20.000 years ago at the end of the ice age. It was an important discovery. The skull was slightly smaller than the lowest typo of Australian aboriginal. The thinness of the skull indicates that it was nearer the modern type than the Piltdown Neanderthal remains.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 8
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