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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00a.m.

New South Wales police who asked New Zealand scientists to analyse samples from a human skull found on a Sydney beach have been told it is an astonishing 700 years old, but not of Aboriginal origin.

The radiocarbon-dating carried out by Waikato University showed the skull dates from around 1300AD - about the time New Zealand was settled by Maori.

Anthropologists ruled out the possibility of it being an indigenous skull, but its age predates European arrival on the east coast by 500 years.

NSW police have issued a statement appealing for anyone with knowledge of the skull to contact them.

But police have been unable to explain how the skull ended up near the high tide mark of Mona Vale Beach on September 12, where it was discovered by early morning swimmers.

Police have ruled out foul play.

NZPA

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Comments [2]

Carlo
19 Jul 2009 5:59a.m.

Are there any websites you can recommend with further information about this Harry?

harry
08 Jul 2009 8:07a.m.

Perhaps the police should read the log books of Captain Cook and Captain Dampier.Both of these captains reported in their logs that that africans were still in Australia being eaten off by the ancestors of the present day aboriginals whom are from India,the tasmanian aboriginal was African .He had curly hair,the people with curly hair came from Africa,includind the people of Figi Vanuatu Solomons Neumea Papua.Perhaps they should allso take a look at the Phoenician boat harbour in Queensland.According to two Phoenician maps discovered in NZ that harbour would date back to before 600 BC. The Phoenicians had at least 12 cities in NZ and a number of cities in Australia at that time.Allso the Africans were in both countrys at or before that time.WE have too muchforbidden history in both countrys because ancient man was supposed to be stupid according to evolution and the European the most evolved,remember Hitler?.The africans colonised the entire southern hemisphere while the Europeans were wandering aruond their backyards,this does not fit with early teachings of evolution where the African was supposed a subspiecies of human not yet fully evolved.Maori traditions tell of at least four different peoples living in NZ at the time they arrived.Look at the statues on Easter Island then look at the Long Heads from south Malekula Vanuatu whoes ancesters came from Africa.Who built all the stone arrangements in Australia and NZ which have been shutup about and many deliberatly destroyed in both countries.Artifacts discovered in both countries give us a history as old as that found in Europe.Stonehenge? We had one on MT Wellington.Think of the tourisim potential if this stuff was not destroyed but their is still a lot remaining

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