Researchers for generations have tried to understand why Australia’s Ice Age giants — enormous kangaroos, car-sized wombat-like creatures, and massive flightless birds — went extinct. Many have thought that the arrival of humans in Sahul — the ancient landmass that once linked Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea — sometime around 65,000 years ago may have […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new paper recently published has provided the most detailed analysis to date of the way in which early Australian boomerangs combined engineering expertise with rich cultural meaning. Researchers working with Indigenous communities in southeastern Australia have analyzed a 19th-century wangim (boomerang) unearthed from a reported burial near Yarra Junction, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, to shed […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine