FOSSILISED HUMAN SKULLS
$ DISCOVERIES IN JAVA. (Rec. December 30, 11.35 p.m.) The Hague, December.3o. Professor Dubois, the discoverer of the Pithecanthropus remains in Java, has informed the Royal Society in Amsterdam that lie also discovered two fossilised human skulls in the AVadjak district in Java. As a Tesult of Dr. S. A. Smith's account of the skull found at Talgai, Queensland, Profe;sor Dubois -re-examined the Java , skulls and finds that they are very much like the skulls of tho Australian blacks, (though move massive, with more massive jaws. He concludes that Java in ancient times was occupied bv Australoid stock. One skull, apparently of a woman, has a brain capacity a seventh larger than that of the Englishwoman to-day.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 5
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121FOSSILISED HUMAN SKULLS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 5
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