Sunday, December 15, 2024

early indigenous canoes, Australia

"[The] archaeological record now shows as far back as 3000 years ago or more people from mainland Australia were building ocean-going double outrigger canoes up to 20 metres long and loading them up with crew and valuable goods and sailing thousands of kilometres to trade in distant lands.

"Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation director Kenneth McLean, a Dingaal Traditional Owner of Jiigurru, or Lizard Island, 33 kilometres off the Queensland coast says the discovery of artefacts that demonstrate the far-flung trade links of people from Cape York may enable his people to share a story they already knew with world.

“Our elders passed knowledge down through generations for us, teaching us how the old people were living back in the day, way before Captain Cook ever came,” McLean says.

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