Around 41,600 years ago, there was a sudden increase in charcoal that happened at the same time as a change in vegetation, ...
Some of the first humans to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, a new ...
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.
Due to low sea levels at the time, Palawa/Pakana (Tasmanian Indigenous) communities were able to migrate from the Australian mainland. When these communities eventually reached Tasmania ...
By studying ancient mud samples containing charcoal and pollen, they determined how Aboriginal Tasmanians influenced and ...
Analysis of ancient mud reveals a sudden increase in charcoal around 41,600 years ago, indicating fire use by early ...
Tasmanians can now have their say as part of the revitalisation of the Edge of the World site at Arthur River. Minister for Parks, Nick Duigan, said the area at the mouth of the Arthur River is ...
Four of the 48 most urgent recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry have still not been delivered, five months after they ...
Tasmanians can now have their say as part of the revitalisation of the Edge of the World site at Arthur River.Minister for Parks, Nick Duigan, said ...
Fifty years later the French zoologist Armand de Quatrefages described Indigenous Tasmanians as ‘fossil men’, alive but doomed to extinction. Until they were wiped out, he suggested, they could be ...