A Fossil Skull of an Ancestral Bushman from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

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ID3386796
AuthorsArthur Smith Woodward (0009-0009-3463-0426, corresponding author)
Year1938
Volume12
Issue46
Pages190-195
Publication date1938-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00013661
OpenAlexW2128694058
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited1

It is now recognized that during the Pleistocene, or even duringa later prehistoric period, there were in northern Africa human races related to the existing Bushmen and the Hottentots of the south. The shape of the skull in some of the early Egyptians, indeed, suggests relationship to the Bushmen. The discovery in the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan of a new type of fossil human skull with several resemblances to that of a Bushman, is therefore of great interest. The specimen was found in February 1924 by Mr W. R. G. Bond, who was then Governor of the Fung Province of the Anglo-Egyptia Sudan. It was embedded in a limestone concretion, which lay a few feet above low-stage river level on the foreshore of the Blue Nile at Singa about 200 miles south of Khartoum. I have to thank Mr G. W. Grabham, then Government Geologist, for the opportunity of studying the fossil

Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Pleistocene · Prehistory · Skull · Geology · History · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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