Some Australian Aboriginal stories may remember coastlines that vanished beneath the sea over 10,000 years ago. Researchers think they could be among humanity’s oldest surviving true stories.

Some Australian Aboriginal stories may remember coastlines that vanished beneath the sea over 10,000 years ago. Researchers think they could be among humanity’s oldest surviving true stories.

Around almost the entire Australian coast, Aboriginal communities have told stories of a time when the sea came inland and swallowed country that people had walked on, hunted across and named. Two researchers have argued that some of these stories may be accurate memories of real events, the drowning of the old coastline as the […]