The Curious History of the Talgai Skull
| Autor: | Jim Allen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Vol 20, Iss 2, Pp 4-12 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1062-4740 2047-6930 |
| DOI: | 10.5334/bha.20202 |
| Popis: | In the Australian winter of 1886 William Naish, a shearer in summer and a fencing contractor in the winter, erected a farm fence along Dalrymple Creek on East Talgai Station, c.125 km southwest of Brisbane. Work was interrupted by six days of torrential rain. On returning to the site Naish found that the rain had extended an erosion channel which he now had to cross walking to work, and from the extended section he retrieved a skull, heavily encrusted in carbonate, but clearly of human origin. Although it would take three decades to recognise and a further five to confirm, Naish had discovered the first direct proof of the Pleistocene antiquity of humans in Australia. Details of this history of Talgai are taken principally and extensively from Macintosh (1963, 1965, 1967a, 1967b, 1969), Elkin (1978), Gill (1978) and Langham (1978). |
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