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The Oldoway Skull

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I HAVE recently returned from Germany, where by the kindness of Dr Hans Reck I was enabled to examine the Oldoway skull and skeleton found by him in 1913 in what was then German East Africa—now Tanganyika Territory—and I have also fully discussed the geological and palaontological evidence as to its age with Dr. Reck himself.

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LEAKEY, L. The Oldoway Skull. Nature 121, 499–500 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121499b0

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