Large Underwater Site That Was Home To 500,000 People About 14,000 Years Ago Identified Northwest Of Australia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Some already call it Australia’s lost Atlantis, but it is not quite the mythical underwater city Plato mentions. A large underwater site that was home to hundreds of thousands of people has been identified and mapped by scientists. Rising seas submerged the land northwest of Australia at the end of […]
Hidden Story Of The Sacred Wiradjuri Carved Trees Revealed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In a landmark collaboration between Wiradjuri people, NSW State government and archaeologists, new research has revealed the deep-time hidden story of Wiradjuri carved trees (marara) and burials (dhabuganha) in Southeast Australia. Led by a collaborative effort between Central Tablelands Local Land Services, Gaanha-bula Action Group, Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council, Yarrawula Ngullubul […]
Dingoes Given ‘Almost-Human’ Status In Pre-Colonial Australia – Archaeological Study Finds
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It’s said that a dog is a man’s best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research led by experts at The Australian National University and The University of Western Australia suggesting that dingoes were buried—and […]
16-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Is The Largest Ever Found In Australia
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called “goethite,” the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of the Barychelidae family to be found. The discovery was made by a team of Australian scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and University of New South Wales […]
Oral Stories Of Australia’s First Nations Might Be 10,000 Years Old – Evidence Found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography “Moon and Rainbow” in which he recounted his ancestors’ stories. Among them was a story telling of a time when the North Wellesley Islands were connected to the Australian mainland. Modern estimates put the last time the North Wellesley […]
9,000-Years-Old Underwater Artifacts Found Off The Western Australia Pilbara Coast – Protect Flying Foam Pᴀssage Scientists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely hidden beneath the sea. Satellite map of Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago). Credit: Professor Jonathan Benjamin at Flinders University […]
Rare Ancient Drawings Offer Evidence Moluccan Boats Visited Australia From Indonesia?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia’s eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the first archaeological evidence of visitors from Southeast Asia from somewhere other than Makᴀssar on Sulawesi. The rock art offers new evidence of elusive and previously unrecorded encounters between Indigenous […]
Quarter-Ton Marsupial Roamed Long Distances Across Australia’s Arid Interior, Reveals 3D-Scanning Study
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of Australia’s first long-distance walkers has been described after Flinders University paleontologists used advanced 3D scans and other technology to take a new look at the partial remains of a 3.5 million year old marsupial from central Australia. They have named a new genus of diprotodontid Ambulator, meaning […]
‘Dates Add Nothing To Our Culture’: Everywhen Explores Indigenous Deep History, Challenging Linear, Colonial Narratives
AncientPages.com – When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of Australia’s Indigenous cultures. That same year, an excavation by the archaeologist D. J. Mulvaney at Fromm’s Landing in South Australia utilised radiocarbon dating for the first […]
Solving The Bark Painting Mystery In Australia
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A fascinating quest to discover the idenтιтy of a prolific early-20th-century Indigenous painter has led a Griffith directed research team to the top and bottom of Australia—and to Paris—and has finally given the artist recognition and new meaning to his modern-day family. Published in Australian Archaeology, Distinguished Professor Paul Tacon from […]