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New Evidence that Ancient Humans Crossed Significant Sea Barrier
... and later bred with modern humans on their way to Australia and New Guinea. Wallace’s Line is a significant ... the other you have all your marsupials, giant lizards and Australia," said Professor Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide in Australia. "This is the probably one of the world's most ...
aprilholloway - 20/10/2013 - 06:23
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World’s Oldest Funerary Fish Hooks Indicate Women Fished in Ancient Indonesia
... This corresponds with ethnographic records on fishing in Australia. As the article in the journal Antiquity on the discovery explains: “In Australia, such hooks were made and used exclusively by ... are similar to rotating hooks which were used in Japan, Australia, Arabia, California, Chile, Mexico and Oceania. ...
Alicia McDermott - 13/12/2017 - 13:56
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Sacrilegious Tourists Defecate at the Sun Temple of Machu Picchu
... to sacred sites and the environment. At ‘ Uluru ’ in Australia, the famous sacred rise in the indigenous ... Stephen Schwer, chief executive of Tourism Central Australia, told SMH “we are seeing increases in rubbish and ... Shocking Acts of Vandalism in First Week The Uluru site in Australia. ( beau / Adobe stock) Lyndee Severin, manager of ...
ashley cowie - 15/01/2020 - 13:55
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Figurative Art Discovered Deep in Indonesian Cave is the Oldest in the World
... of archaeologists from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, led by Maxime Aubert, were investigating art in ... are not the oldest artistic representation. In Kimberly, Australia there are Aboriginal paintings believed to be ...
Ed Whelan - 09/11/2018 - 18:48
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Pleistocene Epoch: Humans, Welcome to Earth
... sloths, all of which are extinct today. The continent of Australia has been separated from Eurasia since the Mesozoic. As a result, Australia has very unusual vegetation and wildlife. Pleistocene Australia was no different. Australia was inhabited by ...
Caleb Strom - 19/10/2018 - 23:02
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Wicklow Gaol: Rebels, Ghosts, and Severe Punishment in 18th Century Ireland
... to France in 1802. The inside of Wicklow goal today Off to Australia – The Worst Punishment of All Many of the inmates ... of ‘transportation’, which meant being exiled to Australia. For many Irish today, this would not be much of a ... food, heat, disease, and exhaustion on the long journey to Australia. Many people sentenced to ‘transportation’ for ...
dhwty - 23/07/2018 - 13:55
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Why Archaeology Is So Much More Than Just Digging
... In our particular field, the historical archaeology of Australia’s convict system (1788-1868), there is a vast ... Arthur Historic Site on the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia. ( Julian Peters Photos / Adobe) LiDAR ( Light ...
ancient-origins - 04/01/2019 - 01:51
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Antarctica's Ancient Origins Update – Part Two: Did Early Voyagers Leave Evidence?
Sailing southwards along the eastern seaboards of Australia and Tasmania, the voyagers would round the east ... Voyagers Sailing southwards along the eastern seaboards of Australia and Tasmania, the voyagers would round the east ... Magna Bowl? Tamils and Sumerians Among the FIRST to Reach Australia and Antarctica? PART I History’s Lost ...
William James Veall - 08/06/2018 - 01:55
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Scientists Understand Why there are Short-statured Indonesians Today, But Can they Explain Hobbit Height?
... of modern humans who all shared a close ancestry. Even in Australia, it was considered by one anthropologist (Dr Joseph ... how modern humans adapt to closed forests – including in Australia . The Stature of the Rampasasa According to 1940s ... 65,000 years ago, heralding the seaborne colonisation of Australia and New Guinea. A later migration of modern humans ...
ancient-origins - 05/08/2018 - 22:55
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The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First?
... On a rocky cliff west of Alice Springs, in the heart of Australia, Michael Terry discovered a carving of the extinct ... of an extinct animal rhinoceros, the ram, unknown in Australia until the arrival of the English, and a ... tiara. Did men from the Near East or Asia reach Central Australia in antiquity, and if so, by what means? It seems ...
Sam Bostrom - 11/08/2017 - 19:04
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The 500-Million-Year-Old Evolutionary Arms Race Towards Better Vision
... recovered from the Emu Bay Shale formation on South Australia's Kangaroo Island . The paper’s co-author, ...
ashley cowie - 05/12/2020 - 21:48
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Ancient Astro-Architecture of the June 21 Winter/Summer Solstice
... the Wurdi Youang Aboriginal Stone Arrangement in Victoria, Australia. This incredibly ancient indigenous site consists ... (today). Wurdi Youang Aboriginal stone arrangement, Australia, estimated to be 11,000 years old. ( CC BY 3.0 ) ... is that Scientists from the University of Western Australia estimate it to be at least 11,000 years old. This ...
ashley cowie - 21/06/2023 - 14:56
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Researchers Find Physical Evidence for the Existence of a Female Pope
... examination of coins Researchers at Flinders University Australia have been studying coins from the 850s AD. They are ...
Ed Whelan - 03/09/2018 - 18:59
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Ancient DNA Sample From Indonesia Is From An Extinct Human Lineage
... Brumm, professor of archaeology at Griffith University in Australia, told Live Science via email . The Leang Panninge ... of new lands to occupy. Most settled in New Guinea and Australia, which during that time were part of one large ...
Nathan Falde - 26/08/2021 - 18:59
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Astonishing Human Heads: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part I
... of Africa, Uruguay and even down the eastern coast of Australia (see table 1) with some most incredible ... Ancient symbols discovered along the eastern coastline of Australia by William James Veall, March 2017. (Copyright ... the rather fruitful foray along the east coast of Australia I decided to chance my luck and put to the test the ...
William James Veall - 28/08/2021 - 02:00
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Origins of Indonesian Hobbits Finally Revealed
The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and not from Homo erectus as has been widely believed.
ancient-origins - 22/04/2017 - 01:56
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New study blames humans for megafauna extinction
... followed by Eurasia. The most extinctions occurred in Australia and the Americas, where humans are believed by most ...
aprilholloway - 05/06/2014 - 23:52
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Ancient Skulls Give Insights into Origins of Polynesians
... "Before 3,000 years ago - although people had been in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomons for maybe 50,000 years ... and 270 more skulls from Melanesia, Western Micronesia, Australia, China and Polynesia. The research will be ...
Natalia Klimczak - 31/12/2015 - 00:52
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What Made Earth a Giant Snowball 700m Years Ago? Scientists Have an Answer
... be spectacularly observed in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. A recent geological field trip to the Ranges, led ... the 19th century European colonial explorer of central Australia, Charles Sturt, stretched from 717 to 660 million ... million years ago in the northern Flinders Ranges, Australia. Research lead author Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz ...
ancient-origins - 12/02/2024 - 16:45
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New Study Reveals the Real Impact of Early Humans on Animal Extinction
... researching islands in the south Pacific, all the way to Australia, which is where early humans eventually leapfrogged ... Humans Coexisted with Giant Lizards and Mega Marsupials in Australia “Evidence that these earlier humans caused ... . Location: Brisbane, Australia New Study Reveals the Real Impact of Early Humans ...
Sahir - 06/05/2021 - 14:46