Posted on 08/22/2024 5:24:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In their study, Dr. Gaffney and colleagues say that new evidence of manually collected and processed 50,000-year-old tree resin shows that humans using sophisticated technological processes arrived on Waigeo Island, which lies along the northern route most suited for human expansion into Australia, as much as 50 to 55 thousand years ago. The new finding exceeds past estimates by close to 10,000 years, revealing that humans likely traversed the Pacific millennia earlier than once thought.
"The tree resin artefact provides evidence for complex plant processing during early human dispersal," they write. The researchers note that the resin sample is "rectilinear," which is "totally unlike globular, naturally formed resins." They argue that this finding indicates it was "collected by humans directly from the tree."
An analysis of the 50,000-year-old tree resin using a scanning electron microscope also showed that it was produced "in a multi-step sequence." This idea was supported by various "chipping and scraping" marks on the different surfaces of the resin. Furthermore, the researchers say the shape and structure of the ancient resin sample revealed that it was likely made by humans who "cut into the trunk of the tree itself."
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I didn’t quote you.
I bet they had a government grant for that.
kamala’s response when told the term “human expansion” doesn’t refer to eating disorders...
You’re right. That wasn’t you.
So, then, what is the excuse?
“There was almost a literal land bridge between Australia and Asia during the Pleistocene.”
smh
Excuse for what? Your infuriation? That eludes explanation.
Breakup of Pangea 100mya
Dude: You’re pissing me off.
Go away now.
looking at the map you posted there is no land bridge between australia and mainland asia, check your map again..
Dude, it’s my topic. Your posting history gave me the reason you’ve been a troll in it.
Reading comprehension:
It’s a thing.
So, for the record, if you follow what is OBVIOUSLY a finger of land on that map, a point is reached which is almost exactly the same distance between Cuba and Florida NOT bridged by that finger of land (i.e., “almost”; smh) to reach what is now Australia across a narrower gap, ironically at almost exactly the point the map frames as the beginning of the human journey across the continent.
Think hard about that.
No, you’re the troll. There’s not any credible question about it.
I haven’t been abusive, but since you’ve asked, your psych meds would have more effect if you’d chop them up and snort them.
Indeed. lol.
But my point is that these early Aboriginal ancestors need only have walked - or rowed - along the coastline until a strong west wind/storm during monsoon season - assuming such patterns existed during the Pleistocene - blew one of them beyond the pale - just one of several 'gaps', and not bigger than traversing the sea between Cuba & Florida - and the first 'new world' was discovered.
If they never went back, their isolation was assured. The rest is 'history', beginning in 1606, so-to-speak.
The human spirit of exploration and adventure is hardwired, though it is obviously stronger in some than others (others never followed them, according to the DNA)...
...and I AM referencing more than merely the physical, the true evidence for this migration having been buried by the seas thousands of years ago. But the DNA and the little clues continue to push back the limits of small minds, just like what is happening in the Americas.
I’ll try that.
Works with erectile medication too, but I’m not a cardiologist or other kind of doctor. :^)
I wonder how many got eaten by crocodiles as they traveled in Australia.
“I wonder how many got eaten by crocodiles as they traveled in Australia.”
I find speculating about the journey the Aboriginals made as not merely interesting, but a fascinating story of exploration & discovery interjected with periods of abject terror.
The fact is that the DNA evidence points to a single ancestor for Aboriginals, yet the so-called ‘archaeologists’ wind a narrative of ‘hundreds’ of people who travelled in boats to make the precipitous journey...
...yet no one ever followed them, leaving the Aboriginals isolated until the ‘discovery’ of Australia in the 17th century after seeding the continent with their population over thousands of generations, let alone that the DNA evidence conflicts with the official narrative.
I don’t believe that it was ‘hundreds’ that made the final journey after reaching the end of that finger of land which was ‘almost’ - ahem - a full land bridge. Perhaps a large group of dozens in the early migration, but certainly there was attrition, including by crocs.
And when a much smaller group ultimately traversed that final stretch of ocean in only one or several ‘boats’ - intentionally or otherwise - never returned after disappearing from the larger group over the horizon, who in their early human/Aboriginal right mind would try to follow them?
Yet some here would rather engage in abuse due to reading comprehension deficits - combined with closet biases - and poison their own thread...
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