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Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 Page Views: 1655
Other ArchaeologyCountry: Australia Aboriginal languages may be much older than people think, argues alinguistic anthropologist who says they originated as far back as the
end of the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.
This challenges
existing thinking, which suggests Aboriginal languages developed from
a proto-language that spread through Australia 5000 to 6000 years ago.
The key to the new hypothesis is prehistoric Australia's single
land mass 13,000 to 28,000 years ago, when New Guinea and Tasmania
were still attached, says Dr Mark Clendon in the journal Current
Anthropology. Clendon says the continent, known as Sahul, was
relatively densely populated on the land bridge connecting northern
Australia to New Guinea, now separated by the Arafura Sea. The other
populated area was along what is now Australia's eastern seaboard.
More: ABC News.
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