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Ancient aquatic system older than the pyramids has been revealed by the Australian bushfir
Posted on 1/21/20 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 1/21/20 at 1:25 pm
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Extensive water channels built by indigenous Australians thousands of years ago to trap and harvest eels for food have been revealed after wildfires burned away thick vegetation in the state of Victoria.
The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, consisting of channels, weirs and dams built from volcanic rocks, is one of the world's most extensive and oldest aquaculture systems, according to UNESCO. Constructed by the Gunditjmara people more than 6,600 years ago, it is older than Egypt's pyramids....
Interesting stuff here...
Thoughts?
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Posted on 1/21/20 at 1:35 pm to teamjackson
They're literally just ditches.
Pretty sure every single human tribe and group ever has understood the concept of digging a ditch.
Pretty sure every single human tribe and group ever has understood the concept of digging a ditch.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 1:39 pm to Numberwang
Don't shoot the messenger!
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:39 pm to teamjackson
We haven’t begun to really scratch the surface as far as understanding what civilization was really like that long ago. A very cool discovery.
Take that climate change!
Take that climate change!
Posted on 1/21/20 at 4:51 pm to teamjackson
quote:messenger should be shot. nobody was on this planet 6600 years ago.
Don't shoot the messenger!
Posted on 1/21/20 at 5:19 pm to teamjackson
So Australia had some ditch diggers, big frickin' deal.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:28 pm to arcalades
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nobody was on this planet 6600 years ago.
Please, go on
Posted on 1/21/20 at 7:11 pm to teamjackson
While this paragraph kind of puts it in more accurate terms, it's still impressive to see.
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While the aquatic system was known to archaeologists -- it was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List last July -- additional sections were revealed by the fires that have ripped through the state in December.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 10:50 am to CNB
Yeah, I gotta hear this. Please explain.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 10:53 am to arcalades
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messenger should be shot. nobody was on this planet 6600 years ago.
I'm liking where this is going
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:12 am to teamjackson
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Don't shoot the messenger!
Ain't shootin.
You asked for my thoughts.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 11:15 am to TigerOnTheMountain
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We haven’t begun to really scratch the surface as far as understanding what civilization was really like that long ago. A very cool discovery.
They're ditches. They suggest that in 6600 years, the Aboriginal Australian civilization advanced very little, if at all.
I don't believe they ever so much as built anything that could be called a "building". Only lean-tos and other rudimentary structures.
I guess that's what makes these ditches so exciting... There isn't much else.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 12:20 pm to teamjackson
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it is older than Egypt's pyramids....
Yeah well did the aliens help build some ditches? Yeah didn't think so
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:24 am to Numberwang
The judge approves.
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