The Lost World of the Bradshaws
The world's oldest depictions of a decorated and ornate people can be found spread over 50,000 square kilometres of northern Australia. The exact age of the paintings can't be determined as the pigment has become part of the rock. A fossilised wasp covering one painting has been dated at 17,000 years. |
Cities
At the time of European settlement, the Australian continent lacked a high-yield agricultural crop as well as animals that could be enclosed in pens. As a consequence, it was not possible for farming communities to develop using native flora and fauna. Tens of thousands of years ago; however, Australia had animals that could have been enclosed in pens, and may have had high-yield agricultural crops. If so, farming communities may have developed.
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Mungo
Man
Mungo man presents a huge spanner in the works of the Out-of-Africa theory of human evolution, as well as the hypothesis that only one group of humans ever migrated to Australia. Although he had the body shape of a modern day Homo sapien, he was not descended from a person who had left Africa in the past 200,000 years. Furthermore, his gracile body shape was older than the robust body shapes that were most commonly found in Australia, and which pre-dated the gracile skeletons of humans living in Australia at the time of European settlement. |
Migrant Flora and Fauna
The invasion of feral fauna and flora did not start in 1788. Among hundreds of other feral species, the existence of the Boab Tree, Kangaroo grass, Bush rats, and the Keelback Snake show that Australia has been invaded by African and Asian species for thousands of years.
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