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Show PREHISTORIC SKULLS AND TOOLS FOUND I IN PHILIPPINES ' MANILA. V. I. Keb 6 Nearly fifty k j lie. lrMivd to have belonged to i people who Inhabited the Island of !.labate. one of lh Philippine jrroup ji:at houLh of the Island of iuxon, at a mu-h earlier period than the preaent prea-ent Filipino race, were found in a I cave recently on that Inland by r. , W. I. Smith, chief of the mines division divi-sion of the bureau of science of the 1 l'hilipuine government. I It is the belief of Pr. Hmlth that the location oi the cave was not known to the natives of the island, being far , front any habitation. Besides the skulls, mar" primitive implements of carpentry and arfars were collected and brought to Manila. Thene consisted of stone hatchets. ixh, simpers, P'Pa, pots aad a strange atnulet. rer teeth and shells were a'fto found in the cave, leading lr. hmith to the conclusion that the print I -. live cats u sellers lived by hunting and fishing. Professor II O. Heyer of the anthropological anthro-pological deiMtrtment of the I'niveraity if ihe Philippine, who has the skull! and wthtT n-W brought from me eve. expressed the heiief that they bwUrfiged tit 'he early Indonesian peoples a ho emigrated to the Philippines in pre-( pre-( h'Riorie times I isoni; of rite ku!!a alMO were found t Le artif U-;a 11 ufortned. a 'ustoui j u( dr-furiDing the head a rt t f U iallv hav-1 hav-1 ing prevailed n Home purls of Knrope in verr earlv t tinea. |