How did the indigenous get to Australia when the continents drifted apart much earlier?
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To dumb it down as much as possible, they sailed. They absolutely did not walk, as paleoclimatology proves. The most interesting thing about Australian Archaeology is not only HOW indigenous Australians arrived in Sahul, but how they traversed the unique arid landscape and came to have some of their oldest remains found in the country’s most southern caves and rock formations ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/2155944](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2155944)). Their incredible hunting strategies utilising burning to draw animals out of dense grassland, then returning during the periods after when new blooms and growths drew in more small prey show that they were intelligent enough to plan food acquisition, and had the capability to plan for a voyage across a large body of water. (Bellwood, P.S., 2015. The global prehistory of human migration).
Post-graduate study of archaeology in Australia has a heavy emphasis on our history, not only because it is so incredibly fascinating, but also because so much of the indigenous population was killed or enslaved during the colonisation of Australia that we have to fight against our own government to recognise the traditional owners of the land.
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