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 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, are in a remarkable 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 hod been. beheaded in accordance with the ancient tribal rites of the Waradgery blacks. When the skeletons were discovered three men left their jobs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1932, Page 9
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107SKELETONS UNEARTHED Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1932, Page 9
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