Boab Bob wrote:'Radical' yowie theory: The smaller variety - jongari (pronounced junjari?) are either homo naledi or homo floresiensis and are distinct from the larger variety which are gigantopithecus and don't have the capability speech. The jongari were brought to Australia/given sanctuary by the last wave of aborigines and they then moved between communities with some of the late aborigine arrivals giving the basis for the aboriginal languages (it's recently been discovered that they are all only around 6000yrs old). The aborigines were so fascinated and learned from/with them and they lived together for a significant period but it wasn't sustainable - hence the stories of the hairy people being 'cast out' or living amongst themselves in the wilderness.
Interesting idea's Boab
Here is an interesting old quote on the matter from an aboriginal elder as reported in M'Cooey, H.J. (9 December 1882), "The Naturalist: Australian Apes", Australian Town and Country Journal: 747
“ Old Bungaree, a Gunedah Aboriginal ... said at one time there were tribes of them [yahoos] and they were the original inhabitants of the country — he said they were the old race of blacks ... [The yahoos] and the blacks used to fight and the blacks always beat them, but the yahoo always made away ... being ... faster runners.
Recorded in 1882 and even then likely an ancient oral tradition going back how far.... 60,000 years at this stage and with the turn of a shovel probably longer.
REFERENCED HERE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
I like the , before homosapiens arrived, archaic, remanemnt homanid theory myself.
Perhaps I have a bias but I can't see" Harry and the Henderson's" happening in a hunter gatherer, warrior based society. I reckon it would have been a competitive and uneasy existence with them.
Not playing devil's advocate or criticising your theory ol matey, because in truth, at this stage
nobody really knows the pre historical truth.
I guess that's why we are all here, to try and nut it out.
Cheers matey