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Acknowledgments 



Grateful acknowledgment is made to the South Australian 

 Museum. Adelaide, to the Australian Institute for Aboriginal 

 Studies. Canberra, and to the Institute of Hygiene and Epi- 

 demiology, Prague, for their support, and to Lloyd Chilman 

 for the photograph in Figure 2. One of the authors (M.P. ) 

 expresses his thanks to the Smithsonian Institution, which 

 enabled him to study human osteological material in the 

 collections of the U.S. Museum of Natural History in Wash- 

 ington, D.C. Further support to G.L.P. was provided by the 

 Australian Research Grant Scheme. Sir Mark Mitchel Foun- 

 dation, Potter Foundation, Sunshine Foundation, and Utah 

 Foundation. All specimens illustrated herein are courtesy of 

 the South Australia Museum. 



The authors are grateful to Colin Cook. Chairman. Gerard 

 Community Council, and Valerie Power. Community Ad- 

 viser, Point Macleay Community Council, for their support 

 to the Roonka research project and interest in its results. 



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