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New Research May Establish Australian Rock Art as the Oldest in the World
... with some estimates indicating an Aboriginal presence in Australia some 80,000 years before the arrival of the first ... for rock art is the Kimberley region of north-western Australia, one of the earliest parts of Australia to be settled and an area where traditional ...
aprilholloway - 24/02/2016 - 00:52
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Tracking Down Ancient Artwork Carved into Australian Boab Trees
... Australian National University, the University of Western Australia and the University of Canberra recently teamed up ... Australian National University, the University of Western Australia and the University of Canberra recently teamed up ... of boab trees in the arid Tanami Desert of northwest Australia, a rarely visited section of the vast continent. ...
Nathan Falde - 13/10/2022 - 14:52
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New Barrier Reef Find Proves Australians Didn’t Learn Pottery from Europe
A new discovery off the northwestern coast of Australia has rewritten the history books. Up until now the academic consensus was that pottery was introduced to Australia by Europeans. This has now been proven wrong. A new discovery off the northwestern coast of Australia has rewritten the history books. Up until now the ...
Sahir - 13/04/2024 - 17:53
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The Australian Yowie: Mysterious Legends of a Tribe of Hairy People
... Yowies meaning “hairy people”. The Two Yowie Groups of Australia The Kuku Yalanji Tribe of Tropical North Queensland, Australia believes in the existence of this creature. They ... Historical accounts refer to two types of Yowie in Australia with the most prominent species being ...
Bryan Hill - 15/08/2018 - 19:12
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Oldest and largest concentration of ancient rock art under threat from Australian Government
... and archaeologists, the state government of Western Australia has now deregistered the region as a sacred site in ... Archipelago is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and is made up of 42 islands and islets, of which ... Map of Dampier Archipelago and Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia ( Wikimedia Commons ) The archaeology of the ...
aprilholloway - 12/05/2015 - 04:10
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Fifty Years Ago, at Lake Mungo, the True Scale of Aboriginal Australians’ Epic Story was Revealed
... estimates of how long Aboriginal people had called Australia home. The discovery taught us Aboriginal history ... Home: There is Still Much He Can Teach Us About Ancient Australia How to get to Australia … more than 50,000 years ago Lake Mungo is an ...
ancient-origins - 08/07/2018 - 22:56
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Pemulwuy: Prominent Aboriginal Rebel Leader Murdered in 1802 AD
... This was the period when the Europeans began to colonize Australia. Pemulwuy was an Aboriginal Australian who lived ... This was the period when the Europeans began to colonize Australia. The arrival of the Europeans in Australia had a profound impact on the lives of the ...
dhwty - 10/12/2021 - 21:58
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Ancient Ancestors Made A Large and Deliberate Migration to Australia
... needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies published on June 17. ... needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies published on June 17. It ... Strait Islander, and Melanesian peoples first made it to Australia as part of an organized, technologically advanced ...
ancient-origins - 18/06/2019 - 21:25
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Australian Dirk Hartog Island Undergoes $16million Fauna Roll Back to 1616
One of Australia's oldest sites of pre-European settlement has been ... saving an entire ancient ecosystem from collapse. One of Australia's oldest landing sites of pre-European settlement ... ecosystem from collapse. Dirk Hartog Island off Western Australia's northern coast was one of the first parts of ...
ashley cowie - 16/10/2018 - 14:00
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Did Portuguese beat Captain Cook to Australia by 250 years?
... a teenage boy stumbled upon an old swivel gun in Darwin, Australia that was found to predate the arrival of the ... Iberian Peninsula, suggesting that the Portuguese reached Australia not only before Cook, but also before the Dutch made the first European sighting of Australia in 1606. Every child in Australia learns about the ...
aprilholloway - 24/05/2014 - 03:18
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Written in Stone: Neolithic Weapons and Tools of the Australian Aboriginals
... around the globe, especially as this occupation of Australia by successive waves of peoples, precedes any ... Aboriginal languages could reveal scientific clues to Australia’s unique past Australian Aboriginals knew of ... grooves. These were worn by men in the far north-west of Australia but have been traded as far as Queensland and South ...
Patricia Anderson - 01/10/2015 - 03:36
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Dingoes Elevated to 'Almost-Human' Status in Pre-Colonial Australia
... "man's best friend," but in the case of the wild dingo in Australia, it has endured a somewhat less favorable ... "man's best friend," but in the case of the wild dingo in Australia, it has endured a somewhat less favorable ... colonization – they were buried and even domesticated by Australia's First Nations people. The study published in PLoS ...
Gary Manners - 20/10/2023 - 22:56
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Mithaka: Heart of Australia’s 2,100-year-old Aboriginal Silk Road
More than 2,100 years ago, Australia’s Aboriginal Mithaka people were likely ... seed-grinding implements. More than 2,100 years ago, Australia’s Aboriginal Mithaka people were likely ... trade network that researchers have described as Australia’s “Silk Road,” reports ABC . These and many ...
Sahir - 29/04/2022 - 15:00
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80 Percent of This Town in Australia Lives Underground!
... Coober Pedy was born. Rough opal from Coober Pedy, South Australia ( CC by SA 3.0 ) Initially, Coober Pedy was named ... who was the first European to have explored this part of Australia, in 1858. Several years later, in 1920, the place ... of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Coober Pedy, South Australia. Like many of the dwellings in Coober Pedy, the ...
dhwty - 13/01/2018 - 21:23
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46,000-Year-Old Kangaroo Bone Ornament is Oldest Bone Jewelry Ever Found
... has been excavated in the Kimberley region of northern Australia by archaeologists at the Australian National ... Australian National University The Aboriginal Peoples in Australia There are more than five hundred different Aboriginal peoples in Australia, each with their own language and territory and ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 21/11/2016 - 21:43
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Aquatic Forensics Opens Up the Cold, Wet Cases of Australia’s Shipwrecks
... from the many ancient historical shipwrecks along Australia’s coastlines. But with severe weathering, and ... of historical shipwrecks off the coast of Western Australia in which a team of aquatic forensics experts from ... four historical shipwrecks off the coast of Western Australia. Getting historical information from a bone or ...
ashley cowie - 15/02/2022 - 13:17
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Ancient tools evolved in Australia thousands of years before they appeared in Europe
Australia receives relatively little attention in academic ... to examine the capabilities of the ancient inhabitants of Australia would be missing out on an important piece of the ... sharpened or ‘retouched’ stone axes evolved in Australia thousands of years before they appeared in Europe. ...
aprilholloway - 12/04/2014 - 02:59
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New Findings in Australia Have Shocking Ramifications for Human Occupation, Species Extinction and Out of Africa Theories
A group of archaeologists in Australia has discovered the world's oldest stone axes with a ... edge. This discovery is extremely significant as it pushes Australia's human history back to 65,000 years, almost 18,000 ... previously estimated. A group of archaeologists in Australia has discovered the world's oldest stone axes with a ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 21/07/2017 - 13:58
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Extinct Denisovans from Siberia Made Stunning Jewelry. Did They Also Discover Australia?
... of the Denisovans in Altai region to the nearest point of Australia is roughly akin to the length of the Trans-Siberian ... of the Denisovans in Altai region to the nearest point of Australia is roughly akin to the length of the Trans-Siberian ... remarkably their DNA lives on in the Aboriginal people of Australia and the Melanesians of Papua New Guinea to a far ...
ancient-origins - 20/09/2017 - 01:58
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Mungo Man Returns Home: There is Still Much He Can Teach Us About Ancient Australia
... work was recently applied to questions in other parts of Australia, where research revealed the ancient megafauna ... age estimates associated with them. The early dates from Australia’s north raise the possibility that some of the ... This could further rewrite the history of the peopling of Australia. Who knows what will be possible as science ...
ancient-origins - 19/11/2017 - 01:52