Earliest Evidence of Humans Living on the Australian Coast
G'day folks,
An island on the Australian coast has held artifacts from 50,000 years ago.
FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS
AGO, Barrow Island, one of the largest islands in
Western Australia, wasn’t an island at all. Back then, when this part of
Australia was connected to the mainland by a stretch of earth that’s now
underwater, hunter-gatherers found a remote cave on the coast and used it as a
hunting shelter, a team of archeologists report.
In Boodie cave, the team
discovered charcoal, animal remains, and artifacts that date back 50,000 years,
they report in Quaternary Science
Reviews. That date pushes back human occupation of
this coastal three thousands years further into past and makes this some of the
oldest evidence for human habitation in Australia.
About 10,000 years ago, the team found, humans moved into the cave
more permanently. But after a few thousand years, as sea levels rose, the
island was cut off from the mainland and the cave was abandoned.
Clancy's comment: Wow, that's a hell of a long time ago.
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