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eppur_se_muova

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2. I was curious as to why this was big news -- then I realized it's specific to Australia.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:32 AM

Apr 2024

In most parts of the world, pottery preceded European contact by thousands of years, so the headline read odd. But it sounds like Oz was exceptional in that they hadn't found the evidence before now. Now I'm curious as to why it's so absent elsewhere/when.

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Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2024 OP

3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization Judi Lynn Apr 2024 #1

I was curious as to why this was big news -- then I realized it's specific to Australia. eppur_se_muova Apr 2024 #2

It's possible the land features have been far more impermanent than elsewhere, through extreme erosions Judi Lynn Apr 2024 #4

Discovery of pottery rewrites Aboriginal history Judi Lynn Apr 2024 #3