History Articles
December 23, 2004
It's a small world after all
THE Australian connection to the hobbit story began a decade ago in the West Australian Kimberley region. Morwood and Hobbs were on a dig when conversation turned to the big questions about our continent: when, why and how did the first people arrive in Australia 50,000 or so years ago? They knew pottery had been left scattered on the Kimberley coastline by Indonesian seafarers who came between 1720 and 1900 to collect sea cucumbers. It set them wondering whether ancient humans might have used the same currents and sea routes to travel south. "So we hired a boat and went sailing in the shallow Arafura Sea," Hobbs says.From It's a small world after all
Facinating article
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February 12, 2004
Clash of Cultures
What do you get when you have an Aussie wearing a kilt, topped with a sombrero, attending an Italian-Irish/Lithuanian wedding with an open bar in Chicago?
This is what you get...an El McAussie!
Thanks to Freesia for reminding me.
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