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DISCOVERY OF
SKELETONS 50,000 YEARS OLD
| FIRST IMPORTANCE IN PREHISTORY OF MAN
SITE OF LONDON UNIVERSITY
PUBLIC TO BE EXCLUDED
ON POLICE ADVICE.
ZUYDER ZEE NOW A LAKE
GREAT DYKE COMPLETED
Amsterdam, May 28,
The southern section of the Lon- don University Bloomsbury site, which achieved unwelcome pubil- The great dyke hetwoon Wierin- An entire family of a new race city a few months ago from n ser-gen and Friesland was completed of prehistoric man, which lived foue clash between Communists to-day, and the Zuyder Zeo was about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, and the pollee, is to be closed to converted into the Ysel Lake. has been discovered in caves near the public within tho next fow Mount Carmel, Southern Palestine.
weeks.
The closing of the Zuyder Zeo means that ultimately over half million acres of land will be
The find, was described by Sir British Museum-avenue and the Arthur Kelth, the eminent anthro-east end of Keppel-street, which reclaimed. This will increase the pologist, as comparable in importare already closed to traille, will aren of the Netherlands by seven ance with that of Peking Man.
then be barred to pedestrians, per cent, while giving an addition The discovery has been made by This action is being taken, it is of arable land equal to ten per Mr. Theodore McCown, working understood, at the wish of the Mer cent. of that now available. for the British School of Archeo-tropolitan Police. Complaints logy in Jerusalem and the Ameri-have been received of windows her sections, known as the north-west, can School of Prehistoric Re-
ing broken by children with the north-east, southwest, and south- search. The skeletons number bricks lying on the ground.
east polders, and of these the north- eight and are thought to repre-
west polder is already been sent all stages of growth.
"It is possible," Sir Arthur Keith stated, "although no definite conclusions can yet be drawn, that this new man may indicate that the main stem of modern
Strong wooden gates, bearing the University arms, have been erected, but it is unlikely that ac- tive operations on the site will commence until the autumn.
Arrangements have also been man completed, for the formation of passed nearer to the line of Nean the proposed new Institute of derthal man than has before been Education which will take over supposed" (Neanderthal man was the L.C.C.'s Day Training College characterised by a wide, low akullin Southampton-row and form un a thick, bull neck, and a negligible Imperial centre for educational
chin);
Mixed Characteristics.
research.
"As regards building we shal!" "The new race resembles modern probably be prepared, if necessary man in some points and Nennder-to go slow in order to producel thal man in others, while it hus something outstanding to har- other characteristica which are moniae with the British Museum entirely unique. We have one building opposite.
specimen, a child of a few years "Work is now proceeding on old, in the Royal College of Sur- detalled plans, and by 1936 we geons, This was found last year, should have a number of build- but I have not before been able ings ready for occupation. These to pronounce upon it. In fact, should include the Administrative am still working on it. It took Buildings, the Library, the Cour- more than five months' laboratory tauld Institute of Art, the In! work to renove the rock which stitutes of Education and Histori- cal Research, and the Schools of Oriental and Slavonie studies.
surrounded it.
"I am expecting the rest of the family, of which I have just been notified, in about six weeks time, when Mr. McCown comes home. I estimate that it will take a year's) work to clear the skulls so that) "The level in which they were Recurate measurements Can be found appears to establish the taken.
period definitely.
terms of
Immense Age.
"I have been able to do this years it may, perhaps, be trans- with the child's skull, but we wantated as 40,000 to 50,000 years ago.) to know what the adult members For the sake of comparison, dates) of the race were like. For the in Egypt and at Ur can be taken present their significance must back easily to nhout 4,000 B.C., remain uncertain, but it is clear while the line of Neanderthal man that they are of very great impor- parted company with the nmnia hu- tance. There have been, perhaps, man stem perhaps 500,000 years half-a-dozen discoveries in this ago.
work with these.
field of the first importance, and 1 The finds will mean intense ac- should number Mr. McCown's tivity for Mr. Herbert Smith, the
museum expert at the dlsinterring) "There are several elements in of rock-covered skeletons.
The the child's skull which are unlike outer stone will be labouriously) any known rneo. It has also a chipped off by hand, and draw- pronounced bulge, resembling that ings will be made at every stage of a young anthropoid ape. Both of exposure, so that a record from the manner of their fuding would be available if chisel and rough photographs which hammer slipped. A dental drill have received, it is evident that and a tooth brush are used for re- the new skeletons belong to the moving the coating from inside the same race, and probably the same skull. The new race has been family.
christened Mount Carmel Man."
or
This land is divided into four
claimed.
re-
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