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its somatological peculiarities. The latest find, however, from 

 Broken Hill mine in northern Rhodesia, has aroused a great 

 deal of interest, because, while not very decisively dated and 

 associated with a recent fauna all of which are either now 

 alive or were so at the coming of white men, the skull itself is 

 of a most peculiar and interesting type, clearly not that of 

 modern man. And the finding of a second specimen which, 

 while fragmentary, serves nevertheless to show community of 

 type with the first, seems to establish the remains as repre- 

 sentatives of a race and not due to individual peculiarities. 



Arguments such as those recently offered by Churchward 2 

 striving to prove the ancestral character of the African Bush- 

 men and the fact that Africa may be the primal home of man- 

 kind are not yet established theses. Northern Africa in the 

 Barbary States has produced cavern murals comparable to 

 those in southern Europe, and Sollas has made much of Bush- 

 man affinities in all of these artistic remains, but these are late 

 in time (Upper Paleolithic, Magdalenian) and do not aid us 

 in our establishment of high antiquity for African man. Un- 

 doubtedly Africa is an old, old home of mankind all signs 

 point to that conclusion but the actual skeletal remains of 

 types anterior to our own species are, as we have shown, but 

 a single find. This is undoubtedly due largely to paucity of 

 discovery rather than to lack of occurrence. 



Of Asia, a similar tale is told, Pithecanthropus, found in 

 1891 in Trinil, Java, being still unique, although one looks 

 daily for the announcement of further finds as the outcome of 

 the American Museum's Asiatic expedition now in the field. 

 Again, we simply do not know the country paleontologically. 



At Darling Downs, Australia, a human skull has been found, 

 apparently in association with extinct Pleistocene Mammalia. 



The European finds, on the other hand, are relatively so 



2 A. Churchward, "The origin and evolution of the human race," New York 

 and London (Macmillan), 1922. 



