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Talgai|tælˈgaɪ|
The name of a farm in Queensland, Australia, used attrib. in Talgai boy, man, skull, etc., to designate the fossil remains of a form of Homo sapiens found there in 1884.
The remains were presented to the University of Sydney in 1914.
1918S. A. Smith in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CCVIII. 355 A comparison of these radiographs with those of the Talgai skull show that..an exposure..was only just sufficient for the bone. Ibid. 370 The palate of the Talgai boy approaches that of the reconstructed Eoanthropus. 1931A. Keith New Disc. Antiquity of Man xix. 303 The exact antiquity of the Talgai skull is still a moot point. Ibid., The Talgai canines projected beyond the level of their neighbours. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 317/1 Australia, having scored once with the help of the Talgai man, looks..for a no less successful second innings. 1977G. Clark World Prehistory (ed. 3) xi. 459 The Talgai group,..although clearly sapient, retains a number of archaic features. |