Sir Arthur Keith's legacy : re-discovering a lost collection of human fossils

摘要: Abstract In 2001, a collection of skeletal material was donated to the Natural History Museum, London, by Royal College Surgeons, London. It consisted boxes discovered among personal belongings Sir Arthur Keith. This paper describes work undertaken identify and document human in Keith Collection. The study identified fossils as having come from number excavations directed Dorothy Garrod 1920s 1930s Israel. contains long considered lost type-site Natufian industry: Shukbah Cave. majority this is origin but few Neanderthal specimens. A small amount heavily fragmented bones associated with Skhūl VII IX were also found. most remarkable re-discovered el-Wad Kebara Caves. be missing Middle Upper Paleolithic levels briefly described 1939 Stone Age Mount Carmel vol 2. Theodore McCown These important hold great potential answer questions about transition Near East, emergence anatomically modern humans.