Aboriginal settlement in Australia 'no accident': study

[Judi Lynn]

10:36am, May 21, 2018 Updated: 10:37am, May 21

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows.

Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The process was designed to simulate likely routes between the islands of Timor and Roti and more than 100 now-submerged islands off the Kimberley coast.

“There’s always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident,” study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm said.

More:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/05/21/aboriginal-settlement-australia-no-accident/

[The Wielding Truth]

1. So interesting! Thanks, Judi Lynn.

[get the red out]

2. Intelligent

It is easy to dismiss humans of the far past as unintelligent since they hadn't yet reached the level of technology we have, but they were as smart and ingenious as people today.