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This is one of my favorite things about Australia, because science has absolutely no explanation for how humans arrived in Australia that long ago. It massivel
by grecy 9y ago
This is one of my favorite things about Australia, because science has absolutely no explanation for how humans arrived in Australia that long ago.
It massively predates any boats, and there are no boats in the history of the Aboriginals.
In fact nobody has even really bothered to try an explain it, because it's way, way, way outside the story that everyone came out of Africa.
- flukus 9y ago> This is one of my favorite things about Australia, because science has absolutely no explanation for how humans arrived in Australia that long ago. It's perfectly explainable, they arrived by boat. The exact time and migration path is still pretty open for interpretation and revision, but building boats is not beyond the capability of the people at the time. All they needed was a fairly simple raft. >In fact nobody has even really bothered to try an explain it, because it's way, way, way outside the story that everyone came out of Africa. No it isn't, it's perfectly consistent with the out of africa hypothesis.
- posterboy 9y agoI wouldn't expect proof from such a long time ago though
- fdej 9y agoWhy? Humans first migrated out of Africa at least 100,000 years ago, which would give plenty of time to reach Australia by 65,000 years ago. The technology to build boats or rafts could easily have been forgotten over thousands of years if seafaring was not crucial to surviving on the new continent.
- nikbackm 9y agoWasn't the sea levels lower at that time as well?
- dalbasal 9y agoIt was, but never low enough to make it the whole way without boats. There's a line called the "Wallace Line," dividing distinct ecological regions of flora and fauna. No matter when migration happened, they would have needed to cross seas.
- peter303 9y agoThe seahore-travel-travel hypothesis, that people traveled the coastline in boats, would have most of its evidence hidden along shorelines inudated by a hundred meters deper water at that time.
- peter303 9y agoThe seahore-travel-travel hypothesis, that people traveled the coastline in boats, would have most of its evidence hidden along shorelines inudated by a hundred meters deper water at that time.
- mmjaa 9y agoThe Bradshaw paintings seem to depict (Australian) humans using boats long before we thought it might have been possible: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/08/aboriginal-rock-art-may-depict-first-sea-arrivals/ http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/08/aborigin...