PREHISTORIC MAN.
DISCOVERY 01-' BOXES IX THE NORTH. . By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whangarei, Honda/. | Mr. Frascr, county engineer, found at Sandy Bay, East Coast, a quantity '■ of mo.i bones and a human skeleton of n high type of man—not a Maori. In a"lowcr strata he found the skull of a low type full-grown num. The sknil '> was much loner iu the anthropological n scale than the famous llcanderil al skull, the crown of the skull being al!r most level with the eyes, and bone very thick. Mr. Frascr intends to send ! j-e specimen to Australian scientist- 'or examination. The low t,\ |ie of sk.ill % had apparently been buried for thousands of y»ars.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 258, 7 December 1909, Page 4
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111PREHISTORIC MAN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 258, 7 December 1909, Page 4
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