PREHISTORIC MAN.
EVIDENCE OF PRIMITIVE SOURCE. By Telesraph—Press ABSooiaAlcn-Obpyrlglit London, December 19. V The Geological Sooiety has discussed a skiill discovered at Pilt Down, in Sussex, alongside mastodon. teeth and prechellean. flints. The general opinion is that the' skull is of the period before cavemen, possibly pliocene. It resembles a, young chimpanzee; the jaw is heavy and ape-iike, the forehead steep, with scarcely any brow ridges. This .is the first evidence of the primitive eouroo whence surviving man has arisen.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 7
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80PREHISTORIC MAN. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 7
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