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Submerged Sites Identified Off Australia's Northwestern Coastline
Archaeology Magazine ^ | October 16, 2026 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 10/19/2026 8:11:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

According to a statement released by Flinders University, underwater archaeologists working with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation rangers and divers have identified sites off the northwestern coast of Australia where First Peoples lived more than 9,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and reshaped the coastline. The submerged area covers some 772,000 square miles. One of the identified sites includes a freshwater spring and stone tools, which were made using material obtained from an island about 14 miles away. Another site featured a rocky hill overlooking a river channel. "The Ngarda-Ngarli people have cared for Murujuga for at least 50,000 years," said Vincent Adams, director of Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation. "The more we learn about how our ancestors used and cared for Country, the better equipped we are to protect it for future generations," he added. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Quaternary Science Reviews. To read about Aboriginal rock art documented on Australia's northeastern coast, go to "Knowing the Ropes."

(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; australia; godsgravesglyphs; iceage; iceages; paleolithic

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Rock sample on the seabed off Australia's northwestern coast
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1 posted on 10/19/2026 8:11:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

“...where First Peoples lived more than 9,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and reshaped the coastline. “

All those SUVs they drove to Canberra................


2 posted on 10/19/2026 8:12:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
I tend not to buy into any of those "been here 10s of 1000s of years" claims, which are generally speaking entirely devoid of evidence.

3 posted on 10/19/2026 8:13:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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Um, I came across this in New Zealand, uh, about a year ago and now I suppose it is, uh, when um I found myself rushing headlong into a controversy. Um, the then Labor government in New Zealand had implemented an education policy in which science classes were to be taught Māori so-called ways of knowing as of equal status to what they call western science, which just means science and um few centuries is couple of centuries before the British arrived in New Zealand.

4 posted on 10/19/2026 8:16:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“The more we learn about how our ancestors used and cared for Country, the better equipped we are to protect it for future generations,”

Walking around naked with bones through our noses?


5 posted on 10/19/2026 8:26:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Walking around naked with bones through our noses?”

We’ve come a long way and now parade down the streets naked, except for leather collars, chains, nose rings, multiple ear rings, rings through the breasts, belly buttons, and I can only guess where else. And tattoos covering everything. Outlandish hair coloring. Yes indeed...we’ve come a long way.


6 posted on 10/19/2026 8:58:31 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: ryderann

“Yes indeed...we’ve come a long way.”
__________________

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7 posted on 10/19/2026 9:09:04 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: ryderann

“Yes indeed...we’ve come a long way.”
__________________

“Sometimes I think that we’ve advanced, and then I look at where we are”
~Larry Norman


8 posted on 10/19/2026 9:09:28 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s a lot of area to search underwater.

There may be some big surprises.


9 posted on 10/19/2026 9:10:52 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d like to see a study of the east coast of the United States of the continental shelf where trawlers have picked up mammoth teeth and human artifacts.


10 posted on 10/19/2026 9:21:38 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: BenLurkin

“...wearing rings on her fingers and bells on her toes and a bone in her nose ho, ho” — Ray Stevens


11 posted on 10/19/2026 11:15:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Her name is Fatima.😆👍


12 posted on 10/19/2026 1:19:58 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: BiteYourSelf

Her sister Skinnyima was a senior my freshman year.


13 posted on 10/19/2026 2:15:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Vaquero; Doctor Congo

https://search.brave.com/search?q=eastern+seaboard+continental+shelf+artifacts+and+fossils


14 posted on 10/19/2026 2:18:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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