JUSt BEFORE CMAS 1887, a young Dutcor cra, in tc Indies, ention of finding t h.

    1Several traordinary about to begin   o t ally, and noted t e tomake tentional. omist by training ology. Nor o suppose t t Indies ed t if ancient people o be found at all, it ed landmass, not in tive fastness of an archipelago.

    Dubois o t Indies on notronger ty ofemployment, and t Sumatra  in ant  is most extraordinary in allt  he was looking for.

    At time Dubois conceived o searced of very little: five incomplete Neandertal skeletons, one partial jaainprovenance, and a ly found by rail acliff called Cro-Magnon near Les Eyzies, France. Of tal specimens, tpreserved ting unremarked on a s ingrock from a quarry in Gibraltar in 1848, so its preservation  unfortunatelyno one yet appreciated  er being briefly described at a meeting of tarScientific Society, it  to terian Museum in London, urbed but for an occasional liging for over ury. t formaldescription of it  ten until 1907, and t named illiam Sollas“ency in anatomy.”

    So instead t for t early  to t unfittingly, as it  anoto alocal sceacerest in all tural. to  credit teact, sa ype of e ers of dispute for some time.

    Many people refused to accept t tal bones  at all. August Mayer,a professor at ty of Bonn and a man of influence, insisted t tco of Belgium.

    merely ting inGermany in 1814 and o to die. .   tally  up a cliff, divested s, sealed t of soil. Anot, puzzlingover tal’s ed t it  of long-term froo reject