Ancient Landmass Emerged and Disappeared 70,000 Years Ago [View all]

By
Abdul Moeed
December 22, 2023



Screenshot of a map from an ancient landmass that emerged and then disappeared again northwest of Australia. Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews / CC BY 4.0

New archaeological research reveals that the sea off northwestern Australia once had islands and a massive landmass. This area was so large it could support around half a million people, as reported in a study published in Quaternary Science Review.

The study maps a world that appeared and then disappeared as sea levels changed over the past seventy thousand years. People are believed to have migrated to this part of the world between forty-five thousand to sixty-five thousand years ago.

The area was part of a paleocontinent called Sahul, connecting Australia to New Guinea. The submersion of this land might have led to significant cultural and population changes in northern Australia.

“It’s this incredible landscape that we really don’t have any analogy for in Australia today,” Kasih Norman, the lead author and a research fellow at Griffith University, reported to Cosmos.

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