Relative Antiquity of the Ubeidiya Hominid

IN 1959 Dr, G. Haas, of the Department of Zoology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was sent some fossil animal bones which had been turned up by a bulldozer levelling a field near Tell Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley near Lake Tiberias. In this material, Dr. Haas identified bones of extinct mammalia and “a human incisor and two small fragments of a hominid calvarium of very great thickness” 1 .