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Author provided We used this digital elevation model to understand what was visible to early travellers. Essentially, from each point in the continent we asked “what can you see from here?” This moving window calculates the largest “viewshed” map ever created. When our virtual travellers move, they reorient based on visible terrain everywhere they go. The figure above shows the prominence of features across the continent as increasingly yellow shades against the blue background. You can clearly make out features such as the the New Guinea Highlands, the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, the Great Dividing Range in the east, and the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ....
HomePortfolioCulture We mapped the ‘super-highways’ the First, Indigenous Australians used to cross the ancient land We mapped the ‘super-highways’ the First, Indigenous Australians used to cross the ancient land The latest research advances our knowledge about the most likely routes those early Australians travelled across this giant continent. (Image: Adobe/dedoma) There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, but evidence is scarce. Few archaeological sites date to these early times. Sea levels were much lower and Australia was connected to New Guinea and Tasmania in a land known as Sahul that was 30% bigger than Australia is today. ....