Word: ouen
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Workmen at St. Ouen, on the Island of Jersey, English Channel, found a prehistoric skull at first claimed to be that of an ape-woman older than Pithecanthropus (500,000 years), our earliest known near human ancestor. But Sir Arthur Keith and Dr. Smith Woodward, of the British Museum, believe it to be of the Neolithic period (from 5,000 to 10,000 years old). It was found in a burial place of people of that time, where bones and implements are plentiful...