Show Bones Uncovered in ir Tanganyika May lay Be Neanderthal Kin Kill Found in iii River Bed With Other Oilier Relics L man or his N J- J cousin may have been an inhabitant of eastern Africa during during during dur dur- ing the Ice ag age Such at least is the preliminary evidence offered by fragments of a skull brought back from Tanganyika formerly German East Africa by Dr L. L Kohl Larsen Berlin archeologist The fragments were found in a thick river deposit that contained a considerable number of rough stone implements and thousands of bones of animals used for food by the prehistoric prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic men who lived at the site rhinoceros zebra gazelle hyena and others Beneath this stratum was another layer of food remains consisting almost entirely of fish bones and above it traces of a second second sec see ond fish-bone fish layer Evidently VCr Very Old The bits of skull are so badly shattered that positive identification is not possible at present That the they are arc undoubtedly very old however however however how how- ever is attested not only by the fauna in whose company they were found but also by their blackened highly highl fossilized condition They are unusually thick Most important among the pieces is a n bit of the upper jawbone bearing bearing bearing bear bear- ing three teeth It was partly on this thi that hat the suggestion was based that the thc time one-time owner may have been a relative of Neanderthal man If this should prove to be really the case the find is one of extraordinary importance for the nearest sites now definitely known mown for authentic are in Palestine about miles north of Tanganyika This would represent a tremendous extension of N Neanderthal Neanderthal Nean Nean- mans man's distribution Paintings Found Also Dr Larsen Kohl-Larsen also found several several sev sev- eral caves containing crudely executed executed exe exe- paintings of animals animals probably ly not of the same age as the bone deposits by the river One of the caves had a sun symbol done in white paint |