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.
“There’s 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 it’s 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.
“We’re 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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The oceans rose as the glaciers melted. Most stretches of water crossed by antediluvian man were considerably shorter than they are today.
Anxious to start brewing Fosters.
It had to be two-way travel as well. Early arrivals must have traveled back to their points of origin and spread the word. Otherwise, more arrivals would be accidents.
I sat the other day and viewed a collection of photos from Australia, South America, and Egypt...all had wall drawings or carved wall situations, with men walking with a ‘handbag’ in their hand. Similar size....similar build...similar handle.
Now, what are the odds that the Aborigines, the Egyptians, and the Aztecs....would all have the same type bag to be carried by some respected ‘visitor’?
Not handbags. Briefcases.
Lawyers are the world’s second oldest profession. Simply less honorable than the first oldest.
Man has always wondered what’s over the next hill, mountain or ocean horizon.
If not for curiosity then to get away from some form of persecution by his fellow humans, be it tribal or government of some sort.
We have, as a race, run out of places to run to. Our next step must be into space and away from our own planet if we are to survive as a race.
Our ancestors could walk, ride a draft animal, pull a wagon or build a boat and get to where they wished to go. Space faring needs a cheap, easily accessible method of getting from place to place in teh universe. At current technology levels that seems to be in a galaxy far, far away.................
Form follows function.........................
They may be right the same way a broken clock is right but it wasn’t able to find flight MH370 so that’s hardly a recommendation. “Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
It’s known as form follows function.
ML/NJ
Couldn’t have been that hard.
You could island hop by sight alone back then. Almost could have walked most of the way from Cambodia.
are you perhaps suggesting they were all deposited in place by space aliens?
“Lawyers are the world’s second oldest profession. Simply less honorable than the first oldest.”
Is there any cave art with go-go boots, hot pants and fishnet stockings?
Yep...the canal system down in NW Botswana convinced me. Terrific canals laid out...precise...the size of Arizona. It would all function great from the weather pattern that existed more than 10,000 years ago from the local ‘delta’.
Well, obviously they all ordered the same handbag from the Sears Roebuck catalog.
Thanks blam!
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