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Submitted by davidmorgan on Thursday, 03 November 2016  Page Views: 6957

Natural PlacesSite Name: Warratyi
Country: Australia
NOTE: This site is 323.919 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
 Nearest Village: Parachilna
Latitude: 31.133679S  Longitude: 138.397319E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Warratyi
Warratyi submitted by dodomad : The Warratyi rock shelter, where newly-discovered artefacts have challenged ideas of how and when certain tills and pigments were first used in Australia. Photo Credit: Giles Hamm (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Shelter in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia

Recent finds have pushed back the date of human arrival in the region to 49,000 years ago.

Note: Recent finds have pushed back the date of human arrival in the region 10,000 years earlier than previously thought and suggest that fine stone tool and bone technology happened as a local innovation rather than being introduced
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Warratyi
Warratyi submitted by Flickr : Warratyi Mantaawi [Not sure what this is but it seems relevant - MegP Ed] Site in Australia Image copyright: marvynmckenzie, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cultural innovation in the early settlement of Australia by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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An article in Nature:

Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia.

Elucidating the material culture of early people in arid Australia and the nature of their environmental interactions is essential for understanding the adaptability of populations and the potential causes of megafaunal extinctions 50–40 thousand years ago (ka). Humans colonized the continent by 50 ka, but an apparent lack of cultural innovations compared to people in Europe and Africa has been deemed a barrier to early settlement in the extensive arid zone. Here we present evidence from Warratyi rock shelter in the southern interior that shows that humans occupied arid Australia by around 49 ka, 10 thousand years (kyr) earlier than previously reported. The site preserves the only reliably dated, stratified evidence of extinct Australian megafauna, including the giant marsupial Diprotodon optatum, alongside artefacts more than 46 kyr old. We also report on the earliest-known use of ochre in Australia and Southeast Asia (at or before 49–46 ka), gypsum pigment (40–33 ka), bone tools (40–38 ka), hafted tools (38–35 ka), and backed artefacts (30–24 ka), each up to 10 kyr older than any other known occurrence. Thus, our evidence shows that people not only settled in the arid interior within a few millennia of entering the continent, but also developed key technologies much earlier than previously recorded for Australia and Southeast Asia.
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    Humans arrived in Australian interior 49,000 years ago, archaeologists believe by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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    The Guardian's take on it:

    Humans arrived in the arid interior of Australia 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists working at a site in South Australia believe.

    Researchers excavating a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges have unearthed ancient artefacts dating from up to 49,000 years ago - just 1,000 years or so after humans arrived in Australia - including burnt eggshells and stone tools. A bone from a now-extinct creature known as a Diprotodon optatum - a huge wombat-like marsupial - was also retrieved, offering the clearest evidence yet that humans interacted with such creatures.

    The discovery of some of the earliest artefacts of their kind in Australia, including certain stone and bone tools as well as red ochre and gypsum pigments, has challenged ideas of how and when such items came to be used.

    “The old idea is that people might have come from the East, from the Levant, out of Africa, and these modern humans may have come with a package of innovative technologies,” said Giles Hamm, first author of the research from La Trobe University, Australia. “But the development of these fine stone tools, the bone technology, we think that happened as a local innovation, due to a local cultural evolution,” he added.

    Published in the journal Nature, the research reveals evidence of human activity 49,000 years ago in the Warratyi rock shelter - a site, discovered by Hamm around five years ago.

    Hamm believes the new findings point to humans rapidly moving south after their arrival in Australia, before becoming “trapped” in the Flinders Ranges as the aridity of the region increased - a situation that could have driven the development of new tools and practices.
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    Re: Cultural innovation in the early settlement of Australia by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 08 November 2016
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    Here's a video by the lead author of the Nature article:

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