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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 1161927" data-attributes="member: 1325">Tarchon I was merely pointing out that a span of 20,000 years is somewhat larger than the nanosecond you claim me to expect. We were talking knowledge, and the date of "mungo man's" presumed existence spans some 34,000 years... Neither did I suggest that even those very rough dates cannot tell us anything, just that it is a very, very rough date, for when people came to Australia. And the Gulf of Carpentia is hardly an "ocean". With a myriad of small islands and reeflets, and treacherous currents it requires no stretch of the imagination to see how fishers could deliberately or inadvertantly arrive on the coast of Australia in small crafts.Growing up in Australia, I was taught that they arrived some 20,000 - 40,000 years ago, with most emphasis on 20,000 years. This was in the '80's. That was "fact" then. The whole point being, that "fact" is revised as new evidence is brought to light. What we know is constantly under revision. Which is a Good Thing (tm)We have yet to adequately explain the origin of Tasmanian aborigines, who were aparently, quite different from those on mainland Australia. Unless there has been some more recent theories proposed, I can't claim to have taken the effort to keep track of the progress of the study of prehistory in Australia. The Tasman Sea is another undertaking altogether from the Gulf of Carpentia.</blockquote>