November
19
/ 2021
A team of archaeologists asked if Aboriginal population recovery in Australia was delayed after the Last Glacial Maximum? For answers, they analyzed archaeological evidence from Australia’s Parramatta River sand sheet. Formed 15 to 29 million years ago, the Parramatta River in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is the main tributary of Sydney Harbor, a branch of Port Jackson. The land adjacent to the Parramatta River was occupied for many thousands of years by Aboriginal peoples, who used the river as an important source of food and a place for trade. In the new study, that was published on Science Direct, researchers looked at alluvial deposits in the Parramatta River that were initially formed around 60,000 years ago, and reworked between
