Via Washington Post:
... 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.
What Bowen saw in 1947 might have been the fossils at U.S. Camp Holcomb, the researchers said.
Bowen told his son in 2010 about how he dug up wooden crates of relics and used them as a machine gun nest when the base came under attack from tens of thousands of Communist Chinese troops. He was captured in the assault.
The veteran’s family then contacted the South African university reputed for archaeological research that has blazed a trail in contemporary studies on prehistory and has discovered fossils in South Africa’s “Cradle of Mankind” that predate... MORE
