Brian Ross wrote on Mar 20
th, 2025 at 4:15pm:
The only evidence I can find of your, "another skeleton not far from Mungo Man site - Wilandra & it's older and it's not "modern man" was that of Mungo Woman. They later discover Mungo Child, but their remains were allowed to deteriorate before they were recovered. Willandra Lakes skeleton WLH4's remains were analysed and discovered to be:
Quote:The authors did recover ancient mtDNA from the Willandra Lakes skeleton WLH4 specimen, "estimated to be late Holocene in age (~3,000–500 y B.P.)" and determined it to be of haplogroup S2, of Aboriginal origin.[29][30]
SourceWillandra Lakes skeleton WLH4
Quote:show that the remaining sample (WLH4)contains ∼1.4% human DNA, from which we assembled two complete
mitochondrial genomes. One of these was a previously unidentified
Aboriginal Australian haplotype belonging to haplogroup S2 that we
sequenced to a high coverage. The other was a contaminating modern
European mitochondrial haplotype. Although none of the sequences
that we recovered matched those reported by Adcock et al., except a
contaminant, these findings show the feasibility of obtaining impor-
tant information from ancient Aboriginal Australian remains.
Source Quote:WLH4 was excavated by Wilfred Shawcross in 1974 but
does not have an absolute date. WLH4 is likely to be Holocene in
age, because the skeletal remains are not heavily mineralized.
Source Try WLH 50 - you're only 46 specimens out.
https://austhrutime.com/wlh-50.htm Quote:This skull and limb bones, the 50 th find of human remains from the Willandra region, Willandra Lakes Hominid 50 (WLH 50), is the most significant of the finds in the area.
It is believed the bones eroded out of the Mungo sediment, but as they weren't in situ their original site, or which layer, is not known. The author of the paper to be published on the detailed analysis of the remains describes it as "much more robust and archaic than any Australian hominid found previously ".
An unusual feature of this skull is its preservation, the bone has been completely replaced by silica, the same process as opalisation.
It has been said that this man is so robust he makes the Kow Swamp man look gracile, quite a statement, given that the most extreme of the Kow Swamp skulls was more robust than H erectus.
The cranium is 210 mm long and very wide. The average thickness of the cranial vault bone is 16 mm.
There is a continuous torus above the eyes formed by the massive brow ridges, and a flat, receding forehead.
The occipital region of the skull is even more archaic than the other features, displaying substantial cranial buttressing.
The neck muscles are huge and the extremely wide skull with the greatest width occurring very low in back view.
The width difference above and below the ears is much greater than in any modern people.
Combined with these extremely archaic features is a very large brain.
With an endocranial capacity of 1450 ml it is much higher than the average of 1300 mm for modern skulls.
Like the Kow Swamp people, the skull is flask-shaped from above, all the rugged features in the Kow Swamp people are much more pronounced in this this skull.
It is unfortunate that the face, jaw and teeth of this skull are missing. enough of the rest of the body was found to suggest that his body was equally as massive as the skull. The surviving elbow bone is enormous.
The small amount of bone remaining gave an electron spin resonance (ESR) date of 29,000 +/- 5,000 BP, and more recently an OSL dating of 25,000 BP was measured.
Some believe that it is more likely to be closer to 35,000 BP at least.
There is disagreement about the connections between WLH 1 and WLH 50.
Some claim it is simply not possible to have WLH 50 descended from people like WLH 1 because of the extreme difference in proportions as well as the form of the two.
The skull bones of WLH 50 is 15-19 mm thick,
those of WLH 1 is 2 mm thick.
There you go girly skirt.
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