22 AUGUST 1925, Page 3

A young Oxford graduate, Mr. Turville-Petre, attached to the British

School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, has discovered another skull of the Neanderthal type. Appar- ently his own studies or intuition led him to explore the caves in the limestone cliffs near the banks of the Sea of Galilee. Below the Aurignacian deposits he found the skull last June among remains of flint implements and other traces of the Mousterian period. It is now known for the first time that this beetle-browed type was not only spread over the European countries around the Medi- terranean basin, but also existed in Asia ; but we are no nearer knowing whether the Neanderthal " man " was our ancestor or a member of a parallel line of evolution which was somehow exterminated in the succeeding Aurignacian period.

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