Lake Nitchie

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Ancient lake bed in western New South Wales, Australia, with a shaft burial of a very tall man wearing a necklace of 159 pierced teeth of the Tasmanian devil - about 47 of the now-extinct animals. The burial was dated to c 6500-7000 bp.

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A relict lake bed on an anabranch of the Darling River, western New South Wales, Australia. Excavation of a burial uncovered the skeleton of a very tall man wearing a necklace of 159 pierced teeth of the Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). The skeleton was estimated to date to c4500 be, and many frontal features of the cranium resembled the robust Kow Swamp population although combined with a more modern temporal and frontal fullness and height.

The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied

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