New Britain herald., 1923-02-27
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Bnenos Aires. Feb. .7.-Diseoyerl Of a fossilized human skull Of th' tertiary period is announced by Dr ], c. Wolf, who has just returned af' ter two years Of exploration in pata' gonia on behalf Of Ia Plata museum
 pr. Wolf declared the fosslliZation was that Of tertiary sandstone and that there was no doubt it was for- merly the skull Of a human being, moi an accidental formation,
 The lower jaw is missing but oth- erwise the skull is almost perfect, The eye sockets and, what is still more convincing, the sockets Of the teeth in the upper jaw. are clearly de- fined. The cranium Is long and oval and the forehead extremely low and sloping.
 Dr. Wolf formerly was attached to the Division on Anthropology of the Canadian Geological Survey. He went to Patagonia primarily to study the language and mythology Of the ln- dians and found the skull in the pos session of white settler who picked 1t up some years ago and kept it as curiosity, not realizing its scientific value.
 Left Skull Behind.
 Dr. Wolf said he had left the fossil in the possession of the settler, whose property it was, and that he had sub mitted data thereon to La Plata Mu- scum for such action as the museum cares to take to obtain it.
 The scientist also announced the discovery of ruins of an ancient forti- fled town in the heretofore unexplor- ed region north of Lake Cardiel, in the territory of Santa Cruz, which he believes to be the remnants of civ ilization probably earlier than that of the Peruvian Incas.
 Sections of walls forty-five feet in height, built of blocks, each of three cubic feet, cut out of basalt, are still standing. The walls extend for 150 yards between hills which serve as buttresses. Within are the ruins of
 Were Highly Civilized.
 Dr. Wolf said the fact that the walls contained arches indicated their build- CTS had reached a comparatively high state of civilization and intellectual at- tainment They were carved with strange hieratic inscriptions differing from the Aztec, Inca or the Chibeha in Colombia.
 He noted one carving in which ap- peared the representation of an animal resembling the extinct glyptodon. He roughly estimated the age of the ruins at from 2,O0O to 5000 years, but thought excavations might determine their age more definitely.
 First Real Proof.
 There have been other evidences Of an ancient civilization in Patagonia, but this is said to be the first discovery of actual ruins. Some distance fur ther south he found what was per haps an ancient thoroughfare. along which for more than mile the rocks were covered with similar inscrip- tions.
 After leaving his data with the pr. Wolf plans to return to to search for the "Enchant- | ed City, of Patagonian Indian mythol- ogy supposed to be situated in the Andes. He believes this place, which | the Indians refer to as the home of of the Sun God, will prove to be the ruins of another ancient city.
 "The fossilized skull is, of course. that of a man who lived some millions of years ago." said pr. Wolf. '"The people who lived in the fortified town were comparatively modern if reck- oned by the age of the human race"
 Never Proved Existence.
 Scientists never have definitely es-