This area, now officially called the Northwest Shelf, was widely inhabited by humans 70,000 years ago and is thought to have been inhabited by up to 500,000 people.
The territory included archipelagos, lakes, rivers and even a large inland sea. Historians believe that it was through these lands that ancient people crossed from Indonesia to Australia, eventually turning into today’s aborigines.
The “Australian Atlantis” was hidden under water during the rise of sea levels due to the melting of glaciers after the end of the Ice Age, and now in its place is the Timor Sea with a depth of 90 to 250 meters.
The new study of the area was carried out by archaeologist Kasih Norman and his team from Graffiti University, Queensland, Australia.
“We are revealing details of the complex landscape that existed on Australia’s northwest shelf. It was unlike any landscape found on our continent today.”
The last ice age ended about 18 thousand years
ago and melting ice began to gradually flood the territory of the
ancient continent of Sahul, which included the lands of Australia,
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