Dr. Broom discovers adult Australopithecus cranium, 1936

An important discovery in South Africa: the brain-cast and parts of the skull of an anthropoid ape with human characteristics. Dr. Robert Broom paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, is pictured with his hand on the exact spot where the skull lay, and (on the left) Mr. W. G Barlow, manager of the lime works at Sterkfontein, near Krugersdorp, who had given him the brain-cast blasted out two days before

Africanus Anthropoid Apr16 Australopithecus Barlow Brain Broom Characteristics Cranium Krugersdorp Paleontologist Sterkfontein Transvaal

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