Australian Museum Journal Occasional notes. No. I. Antiquity of man in Australia
- Shortform:
- Etheridge, 1916, Rec. Aust. Mus. 11(2): 31–32
- Author(s):
- Etheridge, R.
- Year published:
- 1916
- Title:
- Occasional notes. No. I. Antiquity of man in Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 31
- End page:
- 32
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.11.1916.908
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 01 May 1916
- Cover date:
- 01 May 1916
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANATOMY: HUMAN; FOSSIL; TERTIARY: LATE
- Digitized:
- 27 October 2008
- Available online:
- 04 November 2008
- Reference number:
- 908
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (94kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (233kb PDF)
Abstract
In 1890 there appeared a short paper by myself, "Has Man a Geological History in Australia?" being an analysis of the statements relative to the supposed discovery of human teeth in the Wellington Cave bone-deposits by Mr. Gerard Krefft. That teeth were found appeared to be an established fact, but that these were taken from the bona-fide bone breccia did not then appear to be satisfactorily decided, hence the conclusion of "not proven" arrived at. Two other points, however, were unknown to me at the time I wrote. The first was that Krefft had figured one of the molar teeth, and the second that at the time of his severance from the Museum, or thereabouts, he had a work in preparation on our Post-Tertiary Mammals, which apparently was to be called "Australian Fossil Remains."
In 1882 there appeared in the published "Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly" a parliamentary paper, "Exploration of the Caves and Rivers of New South Wales," to which were attached a number of plates of Wellington Cave fossils; some of these were photographic reproductions (thirteen plates), the remainder lithographs, numbered Plates 1 to 18. Figs. 3 and 4 of Pl. 12 are two views of a human molar tooth.