Archaeologists From Flinders University Have Identified Moluccan Vessels From Indonesia in Rock Art Paintings Found at Awunbarna, Arnhem Land, Australia.Image Credit : Flinders University
Posted on 06/03/2023 9:46:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to the researchers, these findings are the first-ever archaeological proof of visitors from Southeast Asia originating outside of Makassar on Sulawesi arriving in mainland Australia.
Two watercrafts depicted in the rock art feature motifs that appear on the Moluccan types of Southeast Asian vessels. They are distinct from other seafaring cultures from the region, enabling the researchers to confirm their identity.
As well as their distinctive shape and configuration, both boats appear to display triangular flags, pennants, and prow adornments. By comparing these two depictions with historically recorded watercraft from islands in Southeast Asia, the researchers suggest that they probably came from eastern Maluku Tenggara in Indonesia.
Dutch explorers in the Moluccas reported as early as the mid-seventeenth century that inhabitants from the islands regularly sailed to the north coast of Australia.
The rock art provides compelling new evidence of undocumented interactions between Indigenous people from Awunbarna in Arnhem Land and visitors from the Moluccas.
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Archaeologists From Flinders University Have Identified Moluccan Vessels From Indonesia in Rock Art Paintings Found at Awunbarna, Arnhem Land, Australia.Image Credit : Flinders University
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A little “genetic” splicing going on I imagine ...
The more we know the more we know we don’t now.
What's surprising is that Oz was so isolated
Early frat boys.
“Hey guys, let’s go to that rad place where everything tries to kill you!”
“Woohoo, dude, totally!”
The northern and western coastlines were not too enticing -- but the conventional idea that Australia was settled by boat (because it hasn't been connected to other continental landmasses in human times) and then no one else arrived for 40,000 years is pretty silly, and/or rooted in colonial era land claims.
That’s the kind of genetic engineering with which humans have always been comfortable...
Aduuu!
That was actually the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie...................kinda slow paced and not much of a plot.............
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