ANCIENT RELICS.
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.
[Pun Pui-:ss Association.! WHANGAHEI, Dec. 6. Mr Fraser, County Engineer, found a.t Sandy Bay, on the .East Coast, a quantity’ of moa bones and a human skeleton of a high type of man. not a Maori. In the lower strata lie found the skull of a. low type- of a full-grown man. The skull was much lower in the anthropological scale than the famous Neandertal skull, the crown of the skull being almost level with the eyes, and the. bones very thick. Mr Eraser intends to,send the specimen to Australian scientists for examination. The' low type of skull was apparently buried for thousands of years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2678, 7 December 1909, Page 2
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110ANCIENT RELICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2678, 7 December 1909, Page 2
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