A PREHISTORIC SKULL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8783, 10 April 1907, Page 4

A PREHISTORIC SKULL.

A skull, or at least part of the skull, of the lowest type of prehis tone man that the North American continent has yet revealed has been discovered several miles north of Omaha, buried in aso called Indian mound. Antedating, it is estimated, by thousands of years the famous " Lansing skull" of Kansas, which bas been said by some scientists to be at !ea-t 150,000 o'd, "Gil d-r's Nebraska skull" has intere-ted the scientific men of the entire country, ox. A tboy are visiting the borne of Robert S. Gilder, in Orusha, wbera now are the skull and several other bonos of thi-* nvm, wlo lived befor..- the g'aci*l period covered North America with a vast field of ice.

Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, of Co'umbia University, New York, siys: —"It is'without doubt the skull of the lowest order of primitive man ever found on this continent" Ha add-) tbafc the skull shows an extremely small brain, w.'th almost negligible possibilities of a power of thought. When asked, " How does this skull compare with the Lansing skull, which has been estimated as being 150,000 yeara eld ?" Professor Osborn said : " This skull antedats the Lansing skull by probibly thousands of years." Dr Henry Baldwin Ward, professor of zoology at Nebraska University, says : "I regard this skull as belonging to a clas3 of aborignes of which we know nothing. They were very primitive, indeed." Dr Erwin H. Barbour, Plate goo'ogist, fays : "It is perfectly wonderful that any race of human being 3 could have such a small amount of intelligence." Dr Barber, professor of operative dentistry in Ci'cighton Univer.-i'y, says : "The jaw indicates tremendous crushing power. These teeth have been worn down through the process of grinding root*, nut?, and raw meat. The lower jaw protruded beyond (he upper, and thero h an abnormal development of both of them."

[ As compared with a normal skull, I tho G lder Nebraska skull shows receeding chin and forehead, ab normally large cheok bones and a brain pan ridiculously small. The dome of the head is only one inch above the top of the eye eocket3. Bui; the man was a giant, neverless. From other bones found in the same moucd the man who owned that skull originally must have been deven feet tall, de-pite his littlo head, with the strength of two ordinary men of to-day.

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