An Australoid Skull from the Cape Flats.

The First Fossil Human Skeleton From South West Africa

“…. al., 1938), Skildergat-Fish Hoek (Keith, 1931) and Cape Flats (Drennan, 1929) shows that the Otjiseva cranium is appreciably shorter than the fossil crania listed but falls almost in Downloaded by [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] at 16:28 15 March 2015 the middle of the Bushman range for maximum cranial lengths. In the breadth dimensions (maximum cranial breadth and minimum frontal breadth), on the other hand, the Otjiseva vault exceeds the upper limits of both the Bushman and Hottentot ranges and resembles the Singa, Boskop and Skildergat (Fish Hoek) crania more closely.…”

“…In the molar dimensions, as in the mandibular dimensions, Otjiseva ( Wells ( 1 9 5 1 ) Hughes ( 1 9 7 1 ) Cooke et al (1945( ) Dreyer et al (1938 Keith ( 1 9 3 1 ) Drennan (1929) Comparison of Otjiseva with other African mandibles (measurements in mm) …”

Canteen Kopje: A new look at an old skull

“…These crania were found throughout South Africa, some apparently associated with Middle Stone Age artefacts or in 'pre-Bushman' archaeological horizons. 18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25 Accordingly, the crania played an important role in early discussions of the origin of the southern African Khoesan. 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33 New developments in the field have enabled researchers to date some of these specimens and re-examine their association with a specific archaeological horizon.…”

Mythical African 'Australoids' and Triangular Bricks: The Cape Flats Skull in Retrospect

“…This 'australoid' concept certainly seemed to me to be without valid evidence, especially at the time of its conception when there was limited comparative material (see below). Furthermore, this essay will show that the facts of the Cape Flats discoveries, as outlined by Drennan (1929a) and Goodwin (1929), themselves cried out for an alternate 'modem' rather than their 'Prehistoric' dating.…”

“…The facts are (a) there is no knowledge of the exact location of a single fragment of the Cape Flats skull, even the "whole brow ridge of one side, two temporal bones, the chin parts of the mandible, and a femur" obtained by sieving of "a considerable quantity of sand" of unstated location; (b) not one of the 11. I shall select a series of statements by Drennan (1929a) to highlight the confusion and 'psychological' attempts to promote an aura of antiquity for the Cape Flats skull:…”