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MR. FITZSIMONS'S letter is the first authentic account published in Europe of the discovery of ancient human remains at Boskop Farm in the Transvaal. There can be no mistake about the importance of the discovery; the remains of Paliolithic man have at last been found in South Africa. As regards the nature or race of the individual thus found there is room for doubt; an examination of the photographs of the skull-cap reveal none of the characteristic features of Neanderthal man; one can exclude that race with some degree of certainty. The individual to whom the skull-cap belonged was apparently of the modern type, with a head of remarkably large dimensions. European and American anthropologists look forward with great interest to the publication of a detailed account of the Boskop discovery.
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KEITH, A. Palæolithic Man in South Africa. Nature 95, 616 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095616a0
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