Aitape Skull (IMAGE)

University of New South Wales

Aitape Skull

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A new geological analysis of the site where a 6000-year old human skull known as the Aitape skull was discovered in Papua New Guinea in 1929 has revealed that the person most likely died in a catastrophic tsunami

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Arthur Durband

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