Not Hunters but Collectors: The Bone that Challenges the 'Humans Wiped Out Australian Megafauna' Theory

Not hunters but collectors: The bone that challenges the 'humans wiped out Australian megafauna' theory

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

Did humans kill Australia's ancient megafauna? Bone study prompts rethink

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First Nations people.

An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

New Research Indicates Australia's First Inhabitants Were Fossil Collectors

In a recent study, Professor Mike Archer from the University of New South Wales and his team revisited the fossilized tibia (the lower leg bone) of the now-extinct giant stenurine kangaroo. These bones, discovered in Mammoth Cave in southwestern Australia around World War I, provided solid evidence that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals, a finding [...] The post New Research Indicates Australia’s First Inhabitants Were Fossil Collector…

Australia’s First Peoples Were Fossil Collectors, New Study Suggests

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower leg bone) of a now-extinct, giant sthenurine kangaroo. The post Australia’s First Peoples Were Fossil Collectors, New Study Suggests appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

New study questions claims Indigenous Australians hunted megafauna to extinction

SYDNEY, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Researchers in Australia have challenged a long-standing theory that Indigenous Australians hunted the continent's giant prehistoric animals to extinction, suggesting instead they may have been fossil collectors. New technology has shown the incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilized bone of an ancient kangaroo were in fact made after the bone was fossilized, not while the