07-20-2017, 12:59 AM
Significant, but inevitable as dating techniques improve and more occupation sites are investigated.
There is a probable occupation site (a shell midden) at Warrnambool that has a 60,000 date. Many archaeologists doubted that the shellfish were the remains of human meals because it was older than sites in northern Australia. Now it fits the likely colonisation model.
DNA evidence suggests that the ancestral Aboriginal people left Africa around 70,000 years and 5,000 years to get from Africa to Australia seems reasonable.
We have a pretty impressive cultural history in this country. In time it will be embraced by most Aussies
There is a probable occupation site (a shell midden) at Warrnambool that has a 60,000 date. Many archaeologists doubted that the shellfish were the remains of human meals because it was older than sites in northern Australia. Now it fits the likely colonisation model.
DNA evidence suggests that the ancestral Aboriginal people left Africa around 70,000 years and 5,000 years to get from Africa to Australia seems reasonable.
We have a pretty impressive cultural history in this country. In time it will be embraced by most Aussies
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball