A WONDER CAVE
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REVEALS SECRETS OF LONG BY-GONE AGES PREHISTORIC ANIMALS
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P-ekin, Novemher 12. Dramatic discoveries have been made in the cave 40 rniles from Pekin which yielded the famous million-year-old fossil of the Pekin man. The discoveries show that the first inhabitants of the cave were prehistoric baboons, an extinct species of the hyaena and other fabulous heasts. After the Pekin man carne another man, the earliest example of the modern typ-e. Traces of industry were f-ound, also primitive implements of great beauty, including ia fox tooth' necklace, and there is a little of the human touch in a bone needle used 'by remote ancestors.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 688, 14 November 1933, Page 5
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111A WONDER CAVE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 688, 14 November 1933, Page 5
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