nicknamenick,

The carbon dating is correct.

The ABC should be judged harshly for making up a speculative gossip story about British 'frontier wars' and 'invasion' out of what is a very ordinary find concerning ONE skull.

Is Mise,

Yes, a stone implement was mentioned in a previous thread on the same subject by nicknamenick. Not something he is accepting, although the academics have not ruled it out.

The ABC report is in my view yet another example of the media dealing in half-truths and creating foolish speculation. The ABC knows that some people will not be listening or reading past the superficial, sometimes misleading, headlines. How often do we see that?

Well the ABC at the first stage didn't have the dating and it recorded the comments of observers as they worked through the investigation. They showed texts written by others. For example, I have one describing police campaigns to shoot a tribe. Farmers did it along the valley a century ago where I grew up, and off a cliff top north of here.

"....and off a cliff top north of here."

where would that be?

It's at
nla.gov/nla.news-articles61876358
The forum won't allow me to paste.
We lived in a street named Irby after the farmer who led the attacks.

This is a terrible forum layout. Here's another link to that:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/61876358

Wasted my time. I got as far as, "It is said that.."