Australia: 700-Year-Old Skull Washes Up On Beach

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First Posted: 07- 7-09 08:18 AM   |   Updated: 07- 7-09 08:26 AM

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A 700-year skull has washed up on an Australia beach, AFP reports. Police have launched an appeal for information. Tests revealed that the skull belonged to a non-Aboriginal child between the ages of four and six.

Police believe the skull must belong to a private collector or museum, but are mystified as to how it arrived on the Sydney beach in September.

ABC reports that the skull was found September 12, 2008, at the Basin, north of Mona Vale Beach.




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A 700-year skull has washed up on an Australia beach, AFP reports. Police have launched an appeal for information. Tests revealed that the skull belonged to a non-Aboriginal child between the ages of ...
A 700-year skull has washed up on an Australia beach, AFP reports. Police have launched an appeal for information. Tests revealed that the skull belonged to a non-Aboriginal child between the ages of ...
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- AlexFTW I'm a Fan of AlexFTW 18 fans permalink
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Let's not lose our heads over this!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:42 AM on 07/09/2009

I've been looking everywhere for that! Can't keep my brain in a jar forever.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:02 PM on 07/08/2009
- LMPE I'm a Fan of LMPE 74 fans permalink
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That's a way to get a-head in life.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:42 AM on 07/08/2009
- AlexFTW I'm a Fan of AlexFTW 18 fans permalink
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Oh Lordy!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:42 AM on 07/09/2009
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This thing was found nearly a year ago and its just NOW making the news here?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:17 PM on 07/07/2009
- groot I'm a Fan of groot 2 fans permalink

nothing better than getting a little skull on the beach...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:15 PM on 07/07/2009
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Cult of the severed head, rise!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:11 PM on 07/07/2009
- jl4141 I'm a Fan of jl4141 13 fans permalink
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They sure that's not Steve Irwin?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:21 PM on 07/07/2009
- drjasonmd I'm a Fan of drjasonmd 41 fans permalink
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Too soon!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:51 PM on 07/07/2009
- MyDogJack I'm a Fan of MyDogJack 12 fans permalink
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NOT FUNNY!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:09 AM on 07/08/2009
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I'm shocked. TMZ reported nothing of Joan Rivers' vacation in Australia.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:21 PM on 07/07/2009
- VPN I'm a Fan of VPN 110 fans permalink
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Did anyone check the Senate to see if anyone is missing?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 07/07/2009
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It's from South Africa. Great White snacked, swam around the Antarctic, belched up the bones. Yucch.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:31 PM on 07/07/2009
- vinny I'm a Fan of vinny 97 fans permalink
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larry king died?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:26 PM on 07/07/2009

You never know what will be washed up next!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:10 PM on 07/07/2009
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Ah! I smell another Ice Man series of investigations on how the boy died.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:48 PM on 07/07/2009
- Squeezer55 I'm a Fan of Squeezer55 9 fans permalink
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Though it was determined to be nonaboriginal, there is a known cultural fact that early cultures living at tidal waters would bury their dead below the tide line so the high tide and nature would take care of the body. It's possible that the young person was buried in the same manner.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:47 PM on 07/07/2009
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I think it's odd it's not being treated as a possible Archeological find. Ships boys were common back in the day, and Australia was known to western sailors in the early 1600s. That's 400 years ago. The Chinese new about Australia before that. Maybe some ship's boy was buried on the beach.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:36 PM on 07/07/2009
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