ANCIENT SKULL FOUND
NEAREST APPROACH TO MISSING LINK MILLION YEARS OLD SHANGHAI. Monday. Scientists in China believe that a new chapter in the history of the human race will be unfolded as the result of the discovery among limestone deposits near Peking of (he skull o£ Sinanthropus Pekinensis, or the Peking man, the first traces of whom were unearthed in the same locality in 1926. It is confidently declared to be the most important discovery of its kind ever made, surpassing even that of the ape man of Java and the Piltdowu man, found in England. The find appears definitely to confirm the theory that the Peking man represents an entirely new genus o£ the human family, and is the nearest approach to the “missing link” hitherto revealed to science. The skull is thought to be at least one million years old, and the shape leads to the belief that man had even then achieved a fairly high degree of intelligence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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