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