Uintah Basin Record | 1937-06-11 | Page 3 | New Type of Human Skull is Found in Germany

New Type of Human Skull Is Found In in German Germany Y Stuttgart Germany A skull of an entirely new type of ancient human being older older older old old- er than Neanderthal man has been disco discovered ered in a gravel pit at Steinheim near here It has been subjected to critical critical critical crit crit- ical scientific examination by Dr Fritz Berckhemer of the Museum oi of Natural l History The skull was very little broken and lacks only the lower jaw and anda a few fragments of the facial bones It resembles the Neanderthal type especially In the characteristic pronounced pro flounced eyebrow ridges the wide nasal opening the massive upper jaw and the rather low cranial arch It is markedly different in being shorter relatively wider and much more rounded off orr at the back and in having considerably less slope back-slope to face and forehead In these respects It is more like modern mod ern man J