SKELETONS UNEARTHED
PROBABLE NATIVE REMAINS DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA While engaged on relief works near Carrathool, New South Wales, recently shire employees unearthed 12 human skeletons. Loam was being moved from a paddock on Howlong Station for roadwork at the time. The remains were probably those of aborigines, buried many generations ago. The skulls, although fragile k are in a romarkable state of preservation. Many skulls also were discovered, which had apparently become detached from the rest of the skeletons, or which were those of aborigines, who had been beheaded in accordance with the ancient tribal rites of the Waradgery blacks. When the skeletons were discovered, three men left their jobi.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 12
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110SKELETONS UNEARTHED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 12
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