Mungo Manic
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Exploring the history of ancient Australians. Profile image is Bullip Bullip "King Billy" of the Wadawurrung
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Kimberley man hunts a massive sea turtle with his bare hands Filmed by Malcolm Douglas in 1976
Mungo Manic43,380 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
A boy gets his teeth knocked out and becomes a man. Sunday Island, Western Australia The stock footage is authentic and incredible. Flint knapping, dancing, rapids rafting, spear throwing and the only tooth evulsion I've seen on film. Available for free at Archive .org
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Short statured groups were found in ISEA and Melanesia even recently. In 1918, explorer Martin Johnson met "a race of Little People" on the island of Espirtu Santo, Vanuatu. He dragged a few out of the jungle, gave one a cigarette and let another fire his revolver
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Incredible footage. The final shot of them climbing onto the truck is deeply symbolic Warri and Yatungka were among the last Australian Foragers. To avoid tribal punishment, they lived alone for 40 years. In 1977 they left the outback, but only in the face of severe drought
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Talgai was the first ancient human skull found in Australia. It was discovered in 1884 eroding from a billabong in southern Queensland. Known for its robust features, Talgai is the only Australian terminal Pleistocene skull not found in the southeast. #FossilFriday The heavily mineralized cranium had been crushed while buried. It was kept at a homestead for 30 years before being purchased by the University of Sydney in 1914, where it sparked debate about the antiquity of human habitation on the continent. Initial analysis by Smith in 1918 determined the skull belonged to a 14-16 year old male. While the cranium was similar to recent Australians, Smith noted primitive, ape-like characteristics in the palate, canine teeth, and facial skeleton, likening it to the Piltdown Man hoax. Later studies refuted these interpretations, placing the Talgai skull within the range of modern variation, albeit with notably large palate and canine sizes. Dating the Talgai skull has proven challenging. No direct radiometric dates exist for the fossil. Macintosh (1969) suggested a minimum age of 13,000 years based on geological evidence. Oakley et al. (1975) dated the presumed source soil horizon to 11,650 ± 100 years BP. Measurements of the Talgai skull have varied due to its poor condition and multiple reconstructions. Smith (1918) recorded cranial length & breadth as 192mm x 141mm, palate breadth of 66.5mm, and palate length of 67mm. In contrast, Willis (1998), working from a cast of a later reconstruction, measured cranial length & breadth as 190mm x 129mm and a significantly larger palate breadth of 74mm, equal to the adult Kow Swamp 1. Talgai has featured prominently in debates about Australian origins. Thorne (1977) grouped Talgai with Kow Swamp and Cohuna in a robust Pleistocene population, contrasted with Lake Mungo and Keilor. This “dihybrid” model saw the robust group as descended from Indonesian Homo erectus via Ngandong. However, the model has not been well supported by recent studies. In summary, the Talgai juvenile cranium provides valuable, if limited, insight into Late Pleistocene/early Holocene Australian morphology. Its large size and robust features align it with other ancient remains and distinguish it from more gracile populations. As of the late 1980s, half the vault was stuck in a mold with the rest in fragments. (3D model made by RLA Archaeology from a post-1930 cast of a reconstruction)
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