People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea
- Written by: Kasih Norman, Research Fellow, Griffith University
For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometres, an area one-and-a-half times larger than New Zealand is today.
It was likely a single cultural zone, with similarities in...
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