THE PROBLEM OF ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN AUSTRALIA 27 
specimen 30 years before he pointed out the site to David; but 
colour, state of mineralization, and distortion of the skull are 
similar to those characteristic of skulls of extinct marsupials 
found in the red-brown clay of the Darling Downs. Whether this 
formation is Pleistocene or Holocene in age has not been deter- 
mined, but it is probably Pleistocene. 
According to Stewart Smith the skull is very primitive, 
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especially in respect to the large facetted canine teeth, but it is 
undoubtedly of the Australian type, and available evidence fails 
to reveal Tasmanian affinities. He said that the cranium is similar 
in all respects to the cranium of the modern Australian, and the 
facial skeleton is of Australian type; but in the palate and canine 
