ABSTRACT
The cultural evidence which was now available from South Africa and Europe, the belief was gaining ground that there had been some relationship between these two continents in the remote past. In 1930 a discovery was made at Fish Hoek in South Africa which threw a new light upon the ancestry of the Bushman and pointed, as Keith suggested, ‘to South Africa as the evolutionary cradle of the Bushman type’. ‘Fish Hoek Man’ was found fifteen miles south of Cape Town, in the Skildergatt cave near Fish Hoek on False Bay. The brain capacity of ‘Fish Hoek Man’ was estimated at 1600 cc, but was clearly smaller than that of Boskop man. In spite of the large size of the skull, however, ‘Fish Hoek Man’ was found to have had a small face and teeth resembling those of the modern Bushman.
