ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wild Grass, Torres Strait Creole, Ambam
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Extended from indonesia into indian ocean: wallacea, wallace line, string of islands separating sahul & sunda, no connection btwn islands for last 50 mil yrs, runs thru wallacea, separates the unique flora & fauna of australia from. Lake mungo (southern australia: 50 40 kya, lake dried up, human burials, stone tools of simple flakes & cores, hearths. 50 40 kya: 10,000 15,000 yrs after arrival of 1st humans: little archaeological evidence of tools associated w bones, no clear association of hunting suggests we may not have been at fault, human induced change in the ecology, use of fire stick farming to promote grasses, setting fire to wild grass to chase out prey animals (cid:224) easier to hunt. Three models: only the first 2 have good evidence: clovis first, clovis culture (13. 5 12. 5 kya, initial human occupation of the americas, pre clovis, human occupation of the americas predates 13. 5 kya, early arrival.
