Superhighways Traveled By The First Australians Reveal A 10,000-Year Journey Through The Continent – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New research has revealed that the process of ‘peopling’ the entire continent of Sahul—the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today—took 10,000 years. New, sophisticated models combined recent improvements in demography and models of wayfinding based on geographic inference to […]
Tooth Analysis Sheds Light On South Australia’s Early Colonial History
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary’s Church in Adelaide. Published today in Australian Archaeology, the new research involved isotope analysis of teeth excavated from graves to determine how many people buried were born […]
Australia’s First Marine Aboriginal Archaeological Site Questioned
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artifacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia represent Australia’s first undisturbed underwater archaeological site. The original findings were made in a study published in 2020 in PLOS ONE, by a team of archaeologists […]
The First Australians Ate Giant Eggs Of Huge Flightless Birds That Went Excinct Over 47,000 Years Ago
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-meter tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago. Burn marks discovered on scraps of ancient shell several years ago suggested the first Australians cooked […]
Ancient Campfires Reveal A 50,000-Year-Old Grocer And Pharmacy In Australia
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time in Australia, archaeobotany has been used by researchers from The University of Western Australia to examine charcoal from ancient campfires in the Western Desert. Led by UWA Ph.D. candidate Chae Byrne, the research was the first of its kind in the region and examined charcoal from […]
Mungo Man Finally To Rest In Peace After 42,000 Years – Reburial Approved After Federal Decision
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What many have long waited for has finally happened. Australia’s oldest man, the Mungo Man will be returned home and he will receive a proper reburial! The remains of 108 ancient Aboriginal people, some first buried 42,000 years ago, will once again be laid to rest in the Willandra Lakes […]
Unique Study Of Skeletal Remains Reveals Grave Health Of Australian Pioneer Settlers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In one of the first studies of its kind, Australian scientists have investigated the health and economic status of a group of migrant settlers to colonial South Australia from an examination of skeletal remains at the Anglican Parish of St Mary’s in Adelaide. Lieutenant James Cook’s landing at Botany Bay […]
Rare Ancient Boomerang Collection Sheds New Light On Australia’s Past
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research has analyzed a rare collection of non-returning boomerangs from Kinipapa (Cooper Creek), near Innamincka in South Australia’s far northeast. The four boomerangs and one wooden fragment were discovered in the creek bed during drought conditions in 2017 and 2018 by Jason Litherland from National Parks and Wildlife South Australia and […]
Australia’s Submerged Indigenous Sites – New Discoveries And Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the main terrestrial and offshore regions of Australia, based on state and marine bioregions. Contains GEBCO 15 ArcSecond raster data (Public Domain) and Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries […]