SKULL OF ANOTHER APEMAN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 5

SKULL OF ANOTHER APEMAN

— Owu Correspondent)

Important Find in The Transyaal "MORE THAN MONKEYS"

(By Air Mail-

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 3. The skull of another prenistorio apeman, believed to be between 50,000 and 100,000 years old, has been discQvered by Mr G. Barlow in the Sterkfontein Caves, five miles from Krugersdorp, in the Transvaal. t Mr Barlow was blasting near tbe entrance to the caves at the spot where Dr. Robert Broom, of the Transvaal Museum, found the skull of a prehistoric woman, a near relation of tne Taunga ape, which he christened • 'Transvaalensis." Embedded in the red Bushmen's limestone, Mr Barlow fouud the skull, which is likely to be of greafc importance to anthropologists. While the woman's skull had only three teeth, this new diacovery koa a complete set, both upper and 'ower teeth. The Transvaalensis men probably walked half-upright. They were non-foreet-anthropoids. Something more than mjnkeys but less than men, ch^y did not clirrto trees, but made caves their homes. Aocording to Dr. Broom, it is not improbable that the first man evolved from this group of manlike apes. Thijs Africa roay be proved to be the cra Jle of the human race. The Transvaalensis man lived in the Pleistocene Age, thousands of years ago, when dinosaurs and giant elephants roamed Africa. Probably these early men ate elephanta. Possibly they left the primeval forests to hunt for food with sticks and stones, and took shelter iu caves when danger threatened.