27 AUGUST 1927, Page 3

The relics of the Stone Age discovered in Kenya by

Mr. L. S. Leakey and Mr. Newsam, of the East African Archaeological Expedition, may turn out to be of thrilling importance. The Nairobi correspondent of the Times says that the expedition is bringing back a hundred cases of specimens in which are included skulls or remains of more than forty human beings. It is suggested that the deposits are pre-glacial, antedating the Central Africa pluvial period and probably below early Pleistocene ; and that they throw a new light on the origin of the European Stone Age culture. Clearly they are of immense significance if they really relate the pluvial period in Central Africa with the glacial period in Europe.

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