Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Possible new lead in Peking Man fossils mystery

[Seattle Times]  The memories of a World War II-era Marine have renewed hopes of solving one of the greatest archaeological mysteries - the whereabouts of the lost Peking Man fossils. The fossils, found a century ago and believed to hold a key to studies of early mankind, disappeared at the outbreak of the war in the Pacific while destined for safe keeping in the United States.