WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN IIRDLICKA II5 



bruch,^ and Boule," while Elliot Smith,* commented mainly on the 

 brain. The most complete account of the specimen so far published, 

 however, is that of Sir Arthur Keith in the recent second edition of 

 his "Antiquity of Man " ; ^ but unfortunately it includes some of the 

 misinformation about the circumstances of the discovery (p. 382, 

 upper paragraph) with its consequences. 



The writer did not wish to anticipate the eventual description of 

 the specimen by his English colleagues. But he has been kindly al- 

 lowed to take a few measurements on the original, and these measure- 

 ments, with those previously published by others, are given in the 

 table on page 130. The specimen is difficult to measure, which, with 

 instrumental imperfections, doubtless accounts for some of the dif- 

 ferences in individual determinations. 



CRITICAL REMARKS 



The Rhodesian find of 1921 is more complex than has been gener- 

 ally appreciated. Due to the absence on the spot of any scientific 

 man exact details of the find have not been ascertained. Of what was 

 learned but little was recorded, and of the rest much has since become 

 confused. The precise circumstances of the discovery are therefore, 

 and must remain, deficient. 



The main part of the bone cavern was evidently for a long time a 

 habitat or feasting place of late Africans, bushmen or negro. The 

 larger bones were none of them brought in by animals, but were the 

 remains of the repasts of the black man. A very large majority were 

 broken for the marrow. Similarly broken human bones suggest 

 cannibalism. There were apparently no human burials in the cave. 

 How the strange Rhodesian skull got in is inexplainable. 



The skull was found alone in the lowest and most remote part of 

 the cave, some distance beneath considerable accumulations of soft 

 pure lead ore. There was neither lower jaw nor skeleton. One human 

 bone, the tibia, and parts of a lion's skull, it is well established, lay 

 from a few to about ten feet from and at a lower level than the skull. 



^ Hambruch, P., Der Schadel von Bruken Hill Mine in Nord Rhodesia. Arch. 

 f. Anthrop., Vol. 19, pp. 52-56, 1923. 

 'Boule, M., Fossil Man, Edinburgh, pp. 481-486, 1923. 



* Smith, G. Elliot, Brit. Med. Journ., 192J, I, 197 ; Atlantic Monthly, Apr., 

 1922. 



* London, Vol. 2, pp. 377-393, 5 illustrations, 1925. 



See also "The Sufferings of the Rhodesian Man," Lancet, 1922, pp. 1206-7; 

 and SifTre — " L'ineptitude dentaire des hommes prehistoriques," La Setnainc den- 

 taire. Vol. 7, Nos. 12 and 13, pp. 300-308, 322-328, 1925. 



