ANCIENT MAN
0' interesting find. (United Press Association—By Electric ’ ' Telegraph.—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 15. Scientists Here believe a new chapter ih the history of tlie human race will be unfolded as a result of the discovery among the limestone deposits near Peking of the skull of Sinanthropus Penikensis or Peking man, the first traces of whom was unearthed in the same locality in 1926. It is confidently declared to be the most important discovery of the kind ever made, surpassing 'even the ape man of Java and PiltdoWn man found in England. The find appears definitely to confirm. the theory "the Peking man represents an entirely new gclius of the human family and the nearest approach to the missing link hitherto revealed to science. The skull is
thought to be at least a million old and the shape leads to the belief that man even then achieved ii, fairly high degree of intelligence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1929, Page 3
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152ANCIENT MAN Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1929, Page 3
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