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"For much of the 65,000 years of Australia's human history, the now-submerged
northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land.
This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometres, an area
one-and-a-half times larger than New Zealand is today.
It was likely a single cultural zone, with similarities in ground stone-axe
technology, styles of rock art, and languages found by archaeologists in the
Kimberley and Arnhem Land.
There is plenty of archaeological evidence humans once lived on continental
shelves – areas that are now submerged – all around the world. Such hard
evidence has been retrieved from underwater sites in the North Sea, Baltic Sea
and Mediterranean Sea, and along the coasts of North and South America, South
Africa and Australia.
In a newly published study in
Quaternary Science Reviews, we reveal details
of the complex landscape that existed on the Northwest Shelf of Australia. It
was unlike any landscape found on our continent today."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
