AN EXTINCT APE-MAN 
Aspects of the Newly-Found 
African Skull. 
ith Woodward, 
T-Tor years scientists have sought the actual 
remains of an extinct race of men known 
to have existed at some time in South Africa. 
The age of the 
skull can pro- 
bably be told in 
hundreds rather 
than in thou- 
sands of years 
bon 
and 
inpleinents have been found, 
in company with scraped 
and broken animal bones. 
Hut the wonderful ripe-faced 
skull recently unearthed 
has not only proved the 
existence of iliis extinct 
support to a vital theory 
put forward bv Professor 
Elliot Smith in 1912. Ad- 
dressing the British Associ- 
ation, he asserted that when 
practical evidence was forth- 
coming it would be found 
that man attained his erect 
gait and full intellectual 
powers before his face 
became refined from a 
bestial, ape-like form. 
It is a remarkable fact 
that the man whose skull 
has now come to light, al- 
though possessing the brain, 
voice and upright posture of 
modern man, had the terri- 
fying features of a bull-ape ! 
The Heidelber. 
Yet another astonishing revelation is the discovery, by 
Dr. Woodward, that the famous Heidelberg jaw-bone found in 
Europe approximately fits "the Khodesian skull." Moreover, it is 
the only known human jaw which will do so ! The skull evidently 
is of comparatively recent origin, but the I leulclbcr^ jaw-bone has 
been assigned to an extremely remote period. 
In the side-view illustration the Heidelberg jaw is shown in 
position with the extraordinary African skull. 
