Where the World Was Born
Newly discovered rock art panels depict how ancient Aboriginal ancestors envisioned climate change and creation
By MATT STIRN
May/June 2021
Along the northern coast of Australia’s Arnhem Land, the Alligator Rivers wind among towering sandstone outcrops, forming a maze of estuaries that eventually empty into the Timor Sea. Kangaroos hop alongside fish-filled rivers, through tropical savannas, and into thick forests of eucalyptus where dingoes, lizards, wallabies, pythons, and more than 100 species of birds make their home. Entwined with the natural landscape, evocative images of both animals and people painted on rocky crags and inside shallow caves appear as evidence of the region’s human past. West Arnhem Land is home to one of the world’s largest collections of rock art, a testament to the relationship between humans and nature that has thrived here since the Paleolithic era, more than 30,000 years ago. The region remains one of the most pristine
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Alligator Rivers to Kakadu
âOne of Australiaâs most beautiful, unspoiled areas, the Alligator Rivers region in the Northern Territory, is to be proclaimed as the Kakadu National Park. The Prime Minister Mr Fraser said yesterday that much of the area would become a national park as soon as the proclamation is gazetted in the next few days.â The area was the subject of the Ranger Uranium Inquiry. The park will be declared in two stages.
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Anna Florin, Andrew Fairbairn, Chris Clarkson, James Shulmeister, Nicholas R Patton, Patrick Roberts
S. Anna Florin., Author provided
Archaeological research provides a long-term perspective on how humans survived various environmental conditions over tens of thousands of years.
In a paper published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution, we’ve tracked rainfall in northern Australia’s Kakadu region over the past 65,000 years. We wanted to know how major changes in rainfall may have affected the region’s Aboriginal communities through time.
Our findings suggest the Kakadu region wasn’t as prone to dry spells as surrounding areas and it likely functioned as a place of refuge for early Australians as they struggled through harsh and arid conditions.
Alligator Energy Ltd (ASX:AGE) Quarterly Activities Report and Cashflow - 31 December 2020
Quarterly Activities Report and Cashflow - 31 December 2020Brisbane, Jan 28, 2021 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Alligator Energy Limited (
ASX:AGE) is pleased to release the 31 December 2020 Quarterly Report.
Uranium
- Completion of Samphire Project acquisition in South Australia - addition of a 47Mlb U3O8 resource (Refer ASX announcement: 8 Oct 2020) - Announcement of key results from Samphire Project desktop study and exploration review (Refer ASX announcement: 16 Dec 2020) including:
o Project is highly amenable to In-Situ Recovery (ISR) production with modern resin advances
o Proposal of updated testwork program by ANSTO for improved uranium extraction / processing flowsheet
Rainfall in a nutshell
P. spiralis trees on the Magela Creek floodplain near Madjedbebe, with an inset displaying the cephalium. Credit Florin et al.
Across the world, it’s what humans and other organisms have left behind that’s advanced our understanding of the Earth’s past. From pyramids to garbage piles, such leavings also preserve the opportunity to understand human history at the time these things were made or discarded.
When it comes to continuous Earth history, it doesn’t get much better than a 65,000-year-old rainfall record. That’s what archaeologists are generating from the ancient food scraps found at Australia’s earliest-known site of human occupation, in the Northern Territory.