Mungo Manic

Very cool

10.12.2024 04:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At the time of European colonization, the initiation rites of circumcision (pink) and subincision/introcision (blue) were spreading outwards from the central desert

10.12.2024 04:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of my favorite websites. It's easy to forget how drastically the Australia coast has changed. New Guinea and Australia were connected just 8,000 years ago!
web.archive.org/web/20210224...

10.12.2024 04:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pleistocene prints: a massive, 6-fingered hand and a child's foot

From the Kimberley region, northwest Australia. Likely over 17,000 years old

(It's possible the handprint was made from two overlapping prints)

10.12.2024 04:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love it

22.11.2024 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here's what I'm watching. Looks like a very accurate depiction of hunter-gatherer life in northern Australian
youtube.com/watch?v=2AMm...

21.11.2024 23:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amazing
bsky.app/profile/mung...

21.11.2024 23:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hercules moths weren't eaten in Australia but Bogong moths were. People valued them for their high fat content: cooking them in fire or grinding them into cakes

21.11.2024 23:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Is that Meganthropus?

21.11.2024 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0