Pre-human Creatures.
A cast of teeth of fossil pre-human creatures of the pleistocene era has been received by the Auckland War Memorial Museum from Mr R. Broom, of the Transvaal Museum. These teeth relate to a discovery by a schoolboy on a farm at Krondraai of a skull of a large anthropoid. The skull is ape-like, but the teeth are similar to the human type. Mr Broom explains that on discovering the skull in an outcrop of rock the boy split it with a hammer. He gave a piece to a friend, who handed it to Mr Broom. Search was immediately made for the boy. who was located “with four of the most valuable teeth in the world in his pocket."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1940, Page 4
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121Pre-human Creatures. Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1940, Page 4
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