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SKELETON FROM AN ANCIENT WORKING IN RHODESIA.— In the Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association, vol. xxi., 1922–23, Mr. G. Arnold publishes a report by Sir Arthur Keith on a skeleton found in an ancient working near the Gwanda Mine. Sir Arthur Keith thinks that the skeleton may be ten centuries old. The remains are those of a young woman about 20 years old, and the character of the face and cranium show that she was a negro of the type so often seen among Matabele and Zulu women. It is to be remarked that the outer margins of the crowns of the more anterior teeth have been chipped during life, as if hard nuts or bones had been cracked in the mouth. One remarkable feature is the non-development of the upper wisdom teeth: they have never been formed, a common occurrence among European women, but uncommon among negroes.
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Research Items. Nature 112, 334–335 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112334a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112334a0