Re: ancient gourd (Lagenaria)

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From: Douglas Weller
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On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 13:10:44 GMT, in sci.archaeology.mesoamerican, Garry
Williams wrote:


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>
>If memory serves, the first Australians and New Guineans (or Greater
>Australians or whatever you want to call them) had to have arrived by
>boat since there was always a certain amount of water separating them
>from Southeast Asia even during the height of the ice ages. And I seem

About 60 k

>to recall that humans arrived in Australia about 40 or 50,000 years
>ago. How much do we really know about boat travel that long ago? The

Well over 100 000 it would seem according to some work done last year.
See the current or last month's national geographic, or:

http://www.smh.com.au/daily/content/rocks/

Doug
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From: dweller@ramtops.demon.co.uk (Douglas Weller)
Subject: Re: ancient gourd (Lagenaria)
Date: 1997/06/29
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