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IN vol. xxix., part i., of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, the president, Dr. R. Hamlyn Harris, under the title of “Some Anthropological Considerations of Queensland and the History of its Ethnography,” supplies an interesting review, with a full bibliography, of the ethnological work which has been done in the State. In 1914, at Talgai, on the Darling Downs, a skull was found in a river deposit in which remains of Diprotodon and other extinct marsupials had already been discovered. The geological evidence is not quite satisfactory, but there are some reasons for believing that it belongs to the Pliocene period. Dr. G. A. Smith, of Sydney University, believes that it is the skull of a young Proto-Australian which is practically indistinguishable from that of a present-day native. It shows a very primitive facial skeleton, the jaw and teeth of which display remarkable features, even more primitive than those hitherto described in any human skull, except in Pilt-down. In particular are noticeable the great squareness and enormous size of the palate and teeth, and the semi-anthropoid nature of the articulation of the upper canines with their mandibular opponents. In the same neighbourhood, in 1906, a couple of rough implements of Palaeolithic type were unearthed.
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Ethnological Work in Queensland. Nature 100, 95 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100095a0
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