Ancient 'super-highways' of Aboriginal migration across Australia mapped by researchers

Sixty thousand years ago, when rhino-sized wombats, giant echidnas and carnivorous kangaroos roamed the country, Aboriginal Australians were just making their way onto the shores.Aboriginal Australians arrived on the shores of a larger continent around 60,000 years agoWhile not exact, researchers hope Aboriginal communities can help fill in the gaps of their work

The models take data from archaeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, geneticists, climatologists, geomorphologists, and hydrologists, and analyses the information to come up with the most likely routes around the country.

The super-highways bear striking similarities to Australia's current highways and stock routes, and Professor Bradshaw said there was a good reason why."The fact that they settle this entire continent so quickly and establish these long-term relationships suggests that, yes, there were oral histories passed down for tens of millennia," he said.

"No-one has 70 thousand years of oral history, but it doesn't mean that there's not deep stories that are associated with land," Professor Russell said. "They're built on evidence, scientific evidence and archaeological evidence often, but they are still a model and I think that's important to remember — these are not hard and fast, they're flexible," she said.

I’m surprised this article hasn’t been deleted, because it implies that some time in the comparatively recent past, Homo sapiens arrived in a landscape previously unoccupied by humans. It seems to imply that Aboriginal Australians are fellow Homo sapiens - and not autochthonous.

Brought to you by the know-it-all white man, the invader + occupier/$$looter of STOLEN LAND... ever seeking distractions + justifications for his crimes + his genocidal guilt... 🤨💀🤮

The bigoted comments about this research & Aboriginal culture/history, show once again the racism ingrained in Australian society, along with the the anti-intellectualism of racists whose 'knowledge' (or lack thereof) is informed by their own bigotry & prejudice not science fact.

I heard that ancient aboriginals actually built the pyramids before using space age wakandan technology to travel to this continent 200,000 years ago

The aborigines didn't build anything. The 'super highways' would be stock routes.

Next they will say Wakanda was real in Australia

This article is basically 90% fluff and academics blowing their own trumpets and 10% actual information. For example 'Researchers say they moved across it on 'super-highways' similar to modern transport routes' 'Super highways' 🙄

Super-highways you say? Wow...we live in 2021 and we don't even have super-highways now. These Aboriginals must have been super dooper advanced. Bruce Pascoe was right all along!

That’d be absolute & utter shit dribble

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