Fresh evidence emerges in search for descendants of Australia’s little-known overseas settlement.

Earlier this year DV expressed interest in this, suggesting a dramatisation of the events for TV.

I know one of the speakers via my previous life.

Short notice for attending the lecture in person, but maybe there’s a way to view it via various technology.

kii said:

Fresh evidence emerges in search for descendants of Australia’s little-known overseas settlement.

Earlier this year DV expressed interest in this, suggesting a dramatisation of the events for TV.

I know one of the speakers via my previous life.

Short notice for attending the lecture in person, but maybe there’s a way to view it via various technology.

nice

DV – I was going to tag you on fb or message you via that other thing, but I thought I’d share the joy here.

kii said:

DV – I was going to tag you on fb or message you via that other thing, but I thought I’d share the joy here.

Appreciated

65,000-years of continuous grinding stone use at Madjedbebe, Northern Australia

Grinding stones and ground stone implements are important technological innovations in later human evolution, allowing the exploitation and use of new plant foods, novel tools (e.g., bone points and edge ground axes) and ground pigments. Excavations at the site of Madjedbebe recovered Australia’s (if not one of the world’s) largest and longest records of Pleistocene grinding stones, which span the past 65 thousand years (ka). Microscopic and chemical analyses show that the Madjedbebe grinding stone assemblage displays the earliest known evidence for seed grinding and intensive plant use, the earliest known production and use of edge-ground stone hatchets (aka axes), and the earliest intensive use of ground ochre pigments in Sahul (the Pleistocene landmass of Australia and New Guinea). The Madjedbebe grinding stone assemblage reveals economic, technological and symbolic innovations exemplary of the phenotypic plasticity of Homo sapiens dispersing out of Africa and into Sahul.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15174-x

kii said:

Fresh evidence emerges in search for descendants of Australia’s little-known overseas settlement.

Earlier this year DV expressed interest in this, suggesting a dramatisation of the events for TV.

I know one of the speakers via my previous life.

Short notice for attending the lecture in person, but maybe there’s a way to view it via various technology.

Date: 15/07/2023 17:41:04
From: Ogmog
ID: 2054606
Subject: re: Humans were in South America at least 25,000 years ago, giant sloth bone pendants reveal

I had no problem assuming that those same itchy-footed individuals
(with an evolutionary propensity to wander/seek & explore)
who initially headed out of the Rift Valley and JUST KEPT GOING…
clear out of Africa, into India and just kept going at first along the coast then into
canoes, then you can easily imagine them island-hopping all the way to AUstralia.

Personally, I have zero trouble whatsoever imaging “Maoris in Mexico” *
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people

…but for the life of me
it’s hard to imagine them wanting to leave Hawaii…

…it’s a joke…
get over it fercrysake
not EVERYTHING is an
open ended invitation to brawl

Part 2:

…so I have no trouble imaging
these people stricken with said generational wander lust
to freely back track in order to trade genetic material as well as material goods

The only thing that surprises me is that it comes as a surprise to anyone else.

Professor Annie Clarke on maritime connections and traditions from Anindilyakwa (Groote Eylandt). This relates to the work being done on the Global Encounters project on the long history of encounters between First Nations peoples and those who came from the sea, specifically Sulawesi and other parts of Southeast Asia BEFORE British invasion.

From my friend who is involved in the Global Encounters & First Nations Peoples project.