@Rokket : Sorry bud, but as expected you're dead wrong. It IS the oldest recognised site of human habitation in the southern Hemisphere - read the reports and see it for yourself. And as the bridge going over the top... well if that's your logic then you'd have no objection to a four lane freeway going through Port Arthur right? That wouldn't disturb any part of the site would it? I might hire a bobcat and get to work right now.
Well....there you have it NSWALC.....it was the sediment that dated back 40,000 years and not the artifacts. Read the book just released, 'Van Diemen's Land - An Aboriginal History' by authors Dr. Ian McFarlane and Murray Johnson. If you don't know who they are, just Google them.
There are modern human sites dated 170,000-70,000 bc. in South Africa at Pinnacle point, Blombos, Sibudu, and Stillbay.
@Rokket : Sorry bud, but as expected you're dead wrong. It IS the oldest recognised site of human habitation in the southern Hemisphere - read the reports and see it for yourself.
And as the bridge going over the top... well if that's your logic then you'd have no objection to a four lane freeway going through Port Arthur right? That wouldn't disturb any part of the site would it? I might hire a bobcat and get to work right now.
Well....there you have it NSWALC.....it was the sediment that dated back 40,000 years and not the artifacts. Read the book just released, 'Van Diemen's Land - An Aboriginal History' by authors Dr. Ian McFarlane and Murray Johnson. If you don't know who they are, just Google them.