Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — Prehistoric Skull. [ARTICLE]

Prehistoric Skull.

The bureau of American ethnology has made public the discovery of a human skull “in concrete,” filled with hard breccia, which was found on the coast of Florida. The skull, collected by Samuel L. King of Bristol, Tenn., from Demere Key, off Fort Myers, is believed to be of prehistoric origin, because, like other human bones discovered by scientists, it is so placed in a strata of earth and pebbles that the age of the bones can be ascertained geologically. Other bones mineralized by age and believed to be from 20,000 to 40,000 years old have been discovered in Florida, Peru and California, giving proof of, the existence of prehistoric man, as well as the prehistoric huge beasts; but man, it would seem, were net so much larger than those of today* Students of these fossil remains believe that some of them were men who died during the glacial period, and that since then the shifting of the earth buried them under from 75 to 150 feet of gravel which water partly eroded, which makes it possible to estimate that at least thousands of years have elapsed since the man died.