The topic of pre-sapiens humans in Australia is a controversial and fascinating topic which doesn’t receive the attention it deserves, especially in academic research.
The Talgai Skull, discovered back in 1886, remains one of the most puzzling human fossils ever found in Australia, not simply because of its age but because of the morphological questions it raises about human origins in the region. Officially, it is the partial skull of a robust adolescent Aboriginal male, dated indirectly to around thirteen thousand years ago. Yet beneath that straightforward classification lies a far deeper mystery.
