[blam]

"The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape... "

The same thing was said about North America when the humans got here 12,000 years ago.

Now that we've found 30-40,000 year old human foot prints in Mexico, what killed the large mammals off 12,000 year ago, huh?

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I'm not sympathetic to the "humans did it" view, most of the time. It tends to be just anachronism projection, and an attack on the current lifestyles and personal liberty of we the people.

In Horus, a journal published by the late David Griffard, vol II no 1 (1985), Barry Fell was interviewed. Alas, DG went down in a private plane after the seventh issue. Among other things:

In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the "Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth" -- they must have seen it!