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Talk:Australian Aborigines (view source)
Revision as of 04:05, January 3, 2009
, 04:05, January 3, 2009→How the aborigines arrived: On land bridges and rising ocean levels.
Re your your last point, Philip, (And HNY to you) they ''walked'' to Tasmania. As far as coming across Torres Strait - people island hop across there regularly in small craft, so it's more than possible. Also, if you look at a map showing water depth you will see that, apart from the Timor Trough there is shallow water between northern Australia and the Indonesian islands and PNG. Sea levels have been a lot lower than they are now. There were land bridges all over the place. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:42, 2 January 2009 (EST)
Re your your last point, Philip, (And HNY to you) they ''walked'' to Tasmania. As far as coming across Torres Strait - people island hop across there regularly in small craft, so it's more than possible. Also, if you look at a map showing water depth you will see that, apart from the Timor Trough there is shallow water between northern Australia and the Indonesian islands and PNG. Sea levels have been a lot lower than they are now. There were land bridges all over the place. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 21:42, 2 January 2009 (EST)
: Happy New Year to you too! Yes, a lot of land bridges existed where they no longer do, but I was under the impression that the depth of Bass Strait would have precluded there being a land bridge there at the time. But that again raises the question of ''when'': In the creationary view the sea levels were much lower during the ice age, which lasted several hundred years after the flood, but Aborigines may not have come to Australia until ''after'' the sea levels rose. I don't know what the sea levels were supposed to be when the Aborigines arrived in the evolutionary scenario. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:05, 2 January 2009 (EST)