The skulls and bones of Rwandan victims rest on shelves at a genocide memorial inside the church at Ntarama, just outside the capital Kigali
The skulls and bones of Rwandan victims rest on shelves at a genocide memorial inside the church at Ntarama, just outside the capital Kigali, in this August 6, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

A human jawbone has been found at The Basin at Mona Vale beach in North Sydney on Sep. 14 at 10.00 A.M. It is said to have belonged to the skull that was found six years ago on the same beach.

A person from the public spotted the jawbone on a concrete path on the beach. It was then seized by the officers from Northern Beaches Local Area Common and they passed it to an expert forensic anthropologist, reported Daily Mail.

Craig Wonders, local area crime manager, said that the time of the discovery was mysterious. He continued that anthropologists would conduct further examinations on it and DNA testing would also be undertaken.

He added that the skull was in the water for a short amount of time, but the jawbone showed signs that indicate that it was in water for a longer amount of time. Scientists examined the jawbone and it was found that it belonged to a skull found on Sep. 12, 2008 on the same beach by an onlooker.

According to The Australian, forensic examinations found that the skull belonged to an adolescent around the age of four or five of either Asian or Pacific Islander origin. There were suspicions that it could be of a girl.

The skull was found to be about eight hundred years old by The University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, where it was sent. The process of radiocarbon dating found that the skull was dated back between 1,220 AD and 1,400 AD.

Due to the age of the bones, a spokesperson for New South Wales Police said that it did not seem like the investigation was going anywhere. It has never been found where the remains came from or why it has just been washed ashore.

In January 2005, several bones were discovered just below the surface when workers were digging a ditch near Octavia St. and Ocean St. in Narrabeen for electricity cables. There were also suggestions that it could belong to an Aboriginal man who wasn't native to the northern beaches. The skeleton was named Narrabeen Man and is the oldest Aboriginal skeleton found as it dates back four thousand years.