Article ID: CBB001210560

The Curious History of the Talgai Skull (2010)

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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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Description On a Pleistocene-era skull discovered in Australia in 1886.


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Authors & Contributors
Muthana, Angela
Luisa Ferrari
Kirakosian, Katie
Turnbull, Paul
Toms, Judith
Staubermann, Klaus B.
Concepts
Archaeology
Human remains
Medicine
Museums
Pathology
Collectors and collecting
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Prehistory
Bronze age
Ancient
Places
Australia
North America
New Zealand
Europe
Queensland (Australia)
Peru
Institutions
Australia. Royal Australian Navy
Royal Anthropological Institute
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