Posted on 05/30/2018 7:17:04 AM PDT by blam
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows.
Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The process was designed to simulate likely routes between the islands of Timor and Roti and more than 100 now-submerged islands off the Kimberley coast.
Theres always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident, study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm said.
What this study has shown is that its so absolutely improbable that you can explain any of those lines of evidence with accidental voyaging.
It has to be purposeful, it has to be co-ordinated and it has to be fairly large-scale to explain the patterns we see.
The Quaternary Science Reviews-published study estimated migration to the bridge of islands off northwest Australia occurred between about 50,000 and 65,000 years ago.
Prof Ulm said the sea was 75 metres lower and the islands visible from the parts of Timor and Roti.
The hundreds of routes modelled would have taken between four and seven days and spanned up to 150 kilometres.
If you had the technology to make it there, it was really easy to make it to Australia, he said.
Were talking 60,000 years ago here. So that is an incredible time stamp to how complex the first Australians were from the moment they first saw Australia.
The study by experts from the CSIRO and various universities also used genetic information to show hundreds of people, not just a few, likely made the voyage.
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Unlike Columbus, who was headed for India and found the new world...............
...Mothers-In-Law
You do know that the oldest profession is a salesmen, she had to sell it first.
Not just curiosity, but animals and birds. Both are made of delicious meat. Hunter Gatherers need meat. Remember the human brain size 60,000 years ago was the same size it is now. They didn’t have to remember all the stuff we know now or work the complexities of modern social life. They could concentrate that brain power on finding food.
A man (or woman) could think about why those birds or fruit bats fly Southeast at sunset. Where are they going? Then climb the highest mountain on the Southeast side of Timor and look! More islands!
As Sam Kenison once said—move to where the food is!
Today, a single small asteroid may contain all the precious metal found on Earth to date. We simply have to get there. That is today’s food. Let’s go!!!
This guy spells out in hundreds of 30 minute videos how we’re going to do it:
Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
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