Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Prehistoric Skull Found.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 5, 1913:
Believed to Have Been Brought to England in Greenland Glacier.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, June 4.— Workmen excavating at Peterborough have unearthed a skull and other remains of a woman which local palaeontologists believe to be as old as the Piltdown skull.
    The place of discovery is near the site of a prehistoric river which once flowed over England from the Greenland glaciers. The remains were possibly brought down by the ice; they are in a good state of preservation.
    The skull is small, the occipital angle acute, and the thigh bones large. The top of the skull is fractured, but it possesses most of the teeth.

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