Outback skeleton is young Aboriginal male
Skeletal remains found by campers in the Northern Territory outback belonged to a young Aboriginal man, police said.
The group stumbled across the remains about 26 kilometres along the Ross Highway, south-east of Alice Springs earlier this month.
A pair of riding boots was found nearby.
The remains, of a young man, were forensically tested in Darwin.
It was likely they had lain in scrub, 50 metres from the road, for between five and 10 years, a police spokeswoman said.
"Police investigations will now focus on missing persons reports fitting the information to determine the identity of the remains," she said.