THE MOST ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN 
the lead ore. Barring a few fragments, it was smelted. 
Somewhere in the vicinity of the lower portion of this 
“bundle” was found a remarkably straight but otherwise 
not peculiar, full-sized human male tibia, and lower, at 
some distance, were portions of a mineralized lion’s skull. 
In the vicinity there may have been found also one or two 
other human fragments, but here much is uncertain. 
The larger part of the bony contents of the main part 
of the cave was so mineralized that it passed for a good 
grade of zinc ore and was smelted as such. Various por- 
tions of the cave fillings, however, were poorer and were 
brought out and thrown on a dump where, covered by 
poor rock and débris thrown out subsequently, they still 
repose. The ground and the débris in the dump are still 
full of fragments and pieces of bone, teeth, chips of 
quartz, etc. 
Only traces of the great cave now remain in the mine, 
and as the work progresses they will disappear. The 
opposite wall of the mine shows an even larger old cavern, 
completely filled with less consolidated and somewhat 
darker materials than the surrounding rock. This cave 
has yielded no bones. 
The main part of the bone cavern was for a long time a 
habitat or a feasting place of the ordinary Africans, Bush- 
men or Negroes. The larger bones were none of them 
brought in by animals, but were the remains of the repasts 
of the black men. 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 
unexplainable. 
The skull was found alone in the lowest and most re- 
mote part of the cave, some distance beneath consider- 
able accumulations of soft, pure lead ore. There was no 
lower jaw. There was no skeleton. One human bone, the 
tibia, and parts of a lion’s skull, it is well established, lay 
within ten feet of the skull, but at a lower level. 
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