This is worth noting. It is time to consider the ramifications of
45,000 years of activity in Australia and in fact globally. I have
already concluded that modern man emerged seriously from its stone
age tool kit around 45,000 years ago. Such an emergence would be in
the same time frames we have experienced during the past five
thousand years. Once begun it becomes unstoppable and effective at
penetrating every valley on Earth with the stone age tool kit at
least.
The first emergence exploited the then sea level continental shelf
world wide in the both the tropics and even the sub tropics.
Technology man emerged there and in time established a presence in
space. Neanderthals joined in this civilization as others would.
The uplands were blasted by violent weather and ferocious wildlife
and remained the preserve of stone age hunters as we today leave the
Arctic to the Aleut as much as we can.
Australia is actually the one continental landmass besides Africa
that could come through the Pleistocene Nonconformity in decent
condition and retaining a fairly intact human population. The clues
we have to the present suggests that we look harder there in any case
and assume nothing.
Archaeologist finds
oldest rock art in Australia
ROD
McGUIRK | Associated Press – Mon, Jun 18, 2012
CANBERRA, Australia(AP) — An archaeologistsays he found the
oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest
in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an
Outback cave.
The dating of one of the thousands of images in the Northern
Territory rock shelter known as Nawarla Gabarnmang will be
published in the next edition of the Journal of Archaeological
Science.
University of Southern Queensland archaeologist Bryce
Barkersaid Monday that he found the rock in June last year but only
recently had it dated at New Zealand's University of Waikato
radiocarbon laboratory.
He said the rock art was made with charcoal,
so radiocarbon datingcould be used to determine its age.
Most rock art is made with mineral paint, so its age cannot
be accurately measured.
"It's the oldest unequivocally dated rock art in
Australia" and among the oldest in the world, Barker said.
The oldest known rock
art is in Spain, where hand stencils and red disks made by blowing
paint on to the wall in El Castillo cave are at least 40,800 years
old, according to scientists using a technique known as
uranium-thorium dating.
Australian National
University archaeologist Sally May, who is not involved with Barker's
research, described his find as "incredibly significant."
"I don't think it
will surprise anyone that rock art is that old in Australia because
we know people have been here a lot longer than that and there's no
reason to believe they weren't producing art," she added.
Barker said he found
evidence that the cave where he found the rock art had been occupied
for 45,000 years.
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