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IT is reported that Miss Dorothy Garrod, director of the Joint Expedition of the School of Archæology in Palestine and the American School of Prehistoric Research, has discovered further remains of Palestine man. A massive and powerful lower jaw has been found in the cave of the Oven at the foot of Mount Carmel. In an announcement of the discovery by Dr. Grant MacCurdy, of Yale University, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, it is stated that the character of the newly discovered jaw fully conforms to the view, based upon the evidence previously discovered in the caves of Mount Carmel, that Palestine man, while presenting Neanderthaloid characters, is of a distinct type. It is also announced that a cap or veil made of dentalia shells has been discovered in an adjacent cave. It will be remembered that in the course of the excavations of 1931, Miss Garrod found a cap of dentalia shells still attached to a skull from a mesolithic series in one of the Mugharet el-Wad caves.
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Ancient Man in Palestine. Nature 131, 19 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131019b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131019b0