Letters to Editor
nature 136, 916-917 (07 December 1935) | doi:10.1038/136916d0
Fossil Human Occipital Bone from Thames Gravels
K. P. OAKLEY1 & L. S. B. LEAKEY2
- 1 Dept. of Geology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.), S.W.7.
- 2 University of London Club, 21 Gower Street, W.C.1.
Abstract
UNDER “News and Views” in NATURE of October 19, page 638, the discovery at Swanscombe of a human skull fragment by Mr. Marsden is recorded and the note says, inter alia, “The bone was associated with Acheulean flint implements”. We should like to put on record that in our experience the middle gravel of the 100-ft. terrace, in which the bone was found, contains, in addition to Acheulean hand-axes and flake tools, artefacts of Clacton III type closely resembling those of High Lodge, and also a few flakes exhibiting a Levalloisian technique.
