motoddrob
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Reading all this all I see is a thick skull!!
What year triples have cast iron cylinder head skulls?
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Dellortoman
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Some years ago I took some rubbish to the tip, as I was unloading my junk I saw something resembling a human skull half buried in a pile of someone else's rubbish. I picked it up and it was a real human skull. I thought it seemed a bit dodgy so I took it to the police. They went into full CSI mode, closed the tip and spent days digging through all the detritus looking for other remains. It turned out to be part of an old skeleton from the medical faculty at the local university. They were apparently having a clear-out and someone put it in the rubbish. It made the newspaper and the university copped some media flak for not disposing of human remains properly.
piranha-bro2
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Bloody hell - you'd think smart uni people would know that was a big fat dodge city thing to do!
chrisk
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Sort of makes you sick to think of all the Laverda parts in landfill around the world.
Was probably just the spare Tassie head
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EXTREME disrespect for the deceased human, whose remains were used in medical education no doubt, disposal should have gone through his/her relatives, no matter how many years since the death. They wont want mine, when I go, far too much cocking around with, and still is
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chrisk
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Was probably just the spare Tassie head
Was that the Tassie blackfella's head Cam? I seem to recall something like that on the news.
piranha-bro2
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That would fit the sad history of the island's indigenous people, mirrored everywhere on the mainland too of course.
Dellortoman
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No. The incident that you're referring to was only a few years ago when someone found an aboriginal skull. I think the skull was quite old and was beleived to have come from a buirial site that dates from before British settlement of Tasmania.
The skull I found was over 20 years ago and it wasn't aboriginal, but it was coincidentally in the same area.
That was the "Black Line" of 1830, but it certainly didn't take everyone out.
A couple of thousand white settlers, soldiers and convicts formed a human chain that swept across the state to remove all remaining aboriginal people. But it failed miserabely. The entire aboriginal population slipped through the net with the exception of an old man and a small boy who were captured.
Despite the failure of the black line, the original inhabitants of this island were eventually hunted and harassed to extinction. The last full blood Tasmanian aboriginal was a woman called Truganini who died in 1876. The many Tasmanians that identify as aboriginal today are mixed race descendents of the first nation people and white settlers. Some of them are my friends, so I hope they don't mind me describing them as such.
The mis-treatment of the indiginous population of Tasmania by white settlers was an appalingly violent, sad and lamentable period of history. But unfortunately it's not unique. The history of the native American people is not dissimilar. Indiginous populations all over the world were seen by European (particularly British) empire builders as worthless savages that needed to be eradicated. It's the age-old story of the conqueror and the conquered.