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The Oldoway Human Skeleton

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WE are glad to find from Dr. Leakey's letter in NATURE of May 14 that he is in agreement with us in regarding the Oldoway skeleton as an artificial burial, and regret that, in common with everyone else whom we have consulted in this matter, we interpreted his original letter in NATURE of Oct. 24 to mean that it was naturally deposited without human agency in Bed 2.

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COOPER, C., WATSON, D. The Oldoway Human Skeleton. Nature 129, 903 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129903a0

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