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Anthropos, 50.1955

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Weitere Titel:: Anthropos

Erscheinungsort:: Fribourg

Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 50.1955

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1955

Signatur:: LA 1118-50

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 50, H. 1./3., 1955

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Titel:: Analecta et Additamenta

Sonstige Person:: Gill, Edmund D.; Gusinde, Martin; Jeffreys, M. D. W.; Durry, Marcel; Maquet, Emma; Thys, Robert; Nilles, John; Huber, H.

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Analecta et Additamenta The Age of Keilor Man, Australia *. — In 1940 a cranium of Homo sapiens was discovered in the yellowish silt of a high terrace of the Maribyrnong River near Keilor, Victoria, Australia (wunderly 1943, Adah 1943). Its age was deducted to be of the order of 150 000 years (Mahony 1943), which could mean that Homo sapiens originated in Australia. Other workers thought that the cranium might be an intrusive burial (Keble and Macpherson 1946). Fluorine tests and other evidence have shown that the cranium is a true fossil having the age of the terrace in which it was found (Gill 1953, 1954, 1955). Now radiocarbon dating has given the absolute age of the terrace, showing that it is only about 9000 years old. At Braybrook, south of Keilor, a power shovel excavating the Keilor Terrace exposed a mass of charcoal and reddened silt which are probably the remains of an aboriginal hearth. Further downstream similar occurrences are to be found with artefacts and bones of food animals. The level from which the charcoal was taken for Cl 4 analysis is 2ft. 6ins. above a diastem which is a feature of the Keilor Terrace. The Keilor Cranium came from about one foot below this diastem. The radiocarbon analysis was kindly carried out by Dr. Hans Suess, who dated the charcoal as 8500 + 250 years. To arrive at the date of the Keilor Cranium, there needs to be added to that figure the time occupied by the deposition of the 2ft. 6ins. of sediment above the diastem, by this sedi mentary break (diastem), and by the deposition of the sediment between the skull level and the diastem level. It is estimated that 500 years is a minimum for these events, and so the date of Keilor Man may be stated to be between 9000 and 10 000 years. It may be possible later to date the Keilor Cranium even more closely, and so check this estimate. However, it is now clear that Keilor Man lived during the recession of the last glaciation. The author’s geological work carried out before the Cl 4 dating reached the conclusion that “Keilor Man belonged to the last big Pluvial which is believed to be at the close of the Pleistocene” (Gill 1954). The C14 date is thus consistent with the geological results, and it is also consistent with other Cl4 datings in the same area. Edmund D. Gill. Curator of Fossils, National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. * Adam W., 1943. The Keilor fossil Skull : palate and upper dental arch. Mem. Nat. Mus. Viet. 13 : 71-77. — Gill E. D., 1953. Fluorine tests relative to the Keilor Skull. Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop. 11 (2) : 229-231. 1954. Keilor Man. Antiquity 28 : 110-113. 1955. Fluorine-phosphate ratios in relation to the age of the Keilor Skull, a Tertiary marsupial, and other fossils from Western Victoria. Mem. Nat. Mus. Viet. 19. — Keble R. A., and Macpherson, J. Hope, 1946. The contemporaneity of the river terraces of the Maribyrnong River, Victoria, with those of the Upper Pleistocene in Europe. Mem. Nat. Mus. Viet. 14 (2) : 52-68. — Mahony D. J., 1943, The problem of the antiquity of man in Australia. Mem. Nat. Mus. Viet. 13 : 7-56. — Wunderly J., 1943. The Keilor fossil skull : anatomical description. Mem. Nat. Mus. Viet. 13 : 57-65. 27 Anthropos 50. 1955

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