They are named so because they were found in the vicinity of the South African settlement of Boskop. It happened more than a century ago, and scientific discussions about the findings continue to this day.
In 1913, the remains of humanoid creatures that lived about 30,000 years before our era, that is, just at the dawn of the appearance of Homo sapiens, fell into the hands of Frederick Fitzsimmons, director of the museum in Port Elizabeth (the territory of present-day South Africa).
According to Fitzsimmons, these could not have been the distant ancestors of mankind: their brain volume reached 1900 cubic centimetres, which is a third more than that of modern people. For this reason, the director of the museum confidently stated that these are Cro-Magnons, who are considered the forerunners of mankind, but at the same time belong to one of the extinct branches....<<<Read More>>>....
