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...letter from Africa last week interested the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Manhattan. Wrote Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, digger in East Africa: "It is almost beyond question that the skeleton of a human being found by Professor Hans Reck in 1913 is the oldest known authentic skeleton of Homo sapiens...
Other anthropologists disagreed, notably Sir Arthur Keith. But Sir Arthur eventually recanted because (he explains in his latest work*) of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey's finds in Kenya Colony 200 miles from the Oldoway gorge. The human fossils which Mr. Leakey has-he transported one in its aboriginal mold to London-are with little question pleistocene. They were built and buried like Oldoway. One had an iron ring around a toe bone. The ring seems a preposterous anachronism...
...Leakey's communication last week reported his re-examination of Oldoway's burial ground. This study "established to our satisfaction" Oldoway's antiquity...
...Kenya Colony, Digger L. S. Leakey reported finding the skeleton of a six-foot cave man of non-negroid characteristics, surrounded by mesolithic flints...