In 1832, George Arthur the governor of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, reflected it was "a fatal error" that a treaty had not been entered into with palawa* people. He believed the absence of a ...

Scientists from the UK and Australia analyzed two paleoecological records from the Bass Strait islands to identify the ...

Some of the first humans to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, a new ...

Analysis of ancient mud reveals a sudden increase in charcoal around 41,600 years ago, indicating fire use by early ...

Tasmania has been cultivated with fire for thousands of years longer than previously thought, in an “affirmation” Indigenous ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Over 41,000 years ago, Aboriginal Tasmanians utilized fire to transform dense forests into open landscapes, revealing land ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier ...

Over 41,000 years ago, Tasmania's first human inhabitants, the Aboriginal Tasmanians, utilized fire to manage and modify ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

The indigenous Palawa and Pakana communities eventually settled on Tasmania, known to the Palawa people as Lutruwita — the furthest south humans had ever settled. Australia, home to one of the world’s ...

Some of the first humans to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, a new ...