Discovery News has picked up the story on the discovery of a 40,000-year-old site in Tasmania, adding that the area had been a meeting ground for three tribes of Aboriginal people, and their last refuge when European colonists arrived in the late eighteenth century. “The Tasmanian government must immediately declare it a protected site, not […]

 At the site of a major road construction project in Tasmania, archaeologists say they have found evidence of the oldest, most southern site of human habitation in the world. “The dates that we’ve got so far, the readings, they’ve been nice and statistically tight, and that suggests to me they’re probably correct,” said head archaeologist […]