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Posted on 06/20/2025 5:36:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
It has long been thought that Australia's Eastern Highlands acted as a barrier to human settlement during the last Ice Age. The treeless and frozen landscape was considered too inhospitable for people to live there, even temporarily. According to a report in The Guardian, however, new research conducted by Australian Museum, the University of Sydney, and the Australian National University in collaboration with First Nations community members indicates that this was not the case. During recent excavations at the Dargan Shelter in the Blue Mountains led by Dharug custodian and knowledge holder Wayne Brennan and archaeologist Amy Mosig Way of the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum, the team uncovered hundreds of stone artifacts and in situ hearths that suggest humans lived there for by at least 20,000 years ago. "It's just such a kind of mind-blowing experience when you unearth an artifact that was last touched by someone 20,000 years ago," said Way. Located at an elevation of 3,500 feet above sea level, the cave is the highest Ice Age site in Australia that humans occupied. Researchers believe that at the time the average temperature would have been much colder than it is today, water would have been frozen much of the year, and firewood would have been hard to procure. The new study lends support to other recent global findings that indicate ancient humans were hardier than previously thought and that icy climates did not block them from traveling through or inhabiting high-altitude environments. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Nature Human Behaviour.
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Stone artifacts recovered from the Dargan ShelterDr. Amy Way
They had an Ice Age in Australia?..................
Yes but it was opposite from ours and spun the other way... lol
.. No but seriously... Antarctica got bigger too...
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap1-Pioneers-of-Plate-Tectonics/Alfred-Wegener/Glacial-Deposits-from-Permo-Carboniferous-Glaciation.html
No wait, my bad, wrong image... That is plate tectonics.
Oh, more proof that fossil fuels are bad and have been planning to destroy humans for centuries.
I enjoy it when scientists have to explain the egg on their faces.
Some guys will do anything for a bit of quiet and solitude.
I am sure they had local Glaciation in the mountains.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B978044453447700074X
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/09/ice-age-struck-indigenous-australians-hard/
I understand finding ‘shards’ of things and pieces that look like arrowheads or tools for scraping and cutting - but how could one ever possibly ‘make’ those last two perfectly oval stones?
How would one find river/lake/ocean shore rocks worn smooth when it was the Ice Age? Was there ANY open water?
Or is this a Quiz? ‘One of these things is not like the others.’ ;)
Yup. When they were hungry they’d throw another shrimp on the barby.
They have BIG SHRIMP down under!................
Typically such items have the signs of having been bound onto a handle, signs of wear from having been used to hammer stuff open, and remnants of goo.
Ice age killed 1000 times more mammals than any global warming periods. By burning fossil fuels if humans can reduce intensity of next ice age, it will save a Billion human lives.
Can we pick which ones?
So these were unused, spare hammer-heads, then?
Are you sure rock-skipping wasn’t a HUGE pastime back then? I mean, there was no Free Republic! ;)
During the Ice Age, “Researchers believe that the average temperature would have been much colder than it is today”
Nothing gets past researchers.
All kidding aside, this is fascinating. Why wouldn’t those people have moved to lower elevations with more abundant food?
Most dying during next ice age will be north of Atlanta and south of Rio de Janeiro.
During last ice age Chicago was covered with 4 mile high glaciers. Then all that ice melted during next global warming and formed largest body of fresh water on earth, known as the Great lakes.
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