tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3005668431384229268.post5708299878064338940..comments2024-03-11T18:46:56.863+11:00Comments on New England's History: Mapping the path of human progressJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3005668431384229268.post-28586177454779449862017-08-26T08:44:14.165+10:002017-08-26T08:44:14.165+10:00No wuwwies, John. I knew who you were talking too!...No wuwwies, John. I knew who you were talking too!<br />Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3005668431384229268.post-73181555972924195962017-08-25T04:31:31.224+10:002017-08-25T04:31:31.224+10:00My humble apologies Jim.
Johnb
My humble apologies Jim.<br />Johnb<br />Johnbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09694479587834247002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3005668431384229268.post-26491428992625004832017-08-24T18:15:21.723+10:002017-08-24T18:15:21.723+10:00Yes Bill, Fremantle or similar would have seemed a...Yes Bill, Fremantle or similar would have seemed a logical place for the nation who established the colony at Cape of Good Hope for a similar purpose. However I suspect that the Dutch, good mercantilist that they are, saw no profit in it. We must never forget that the British colonosiation came with an imported workforce, a facility not available to the Dutch.Johnbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09694479587834247002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3005668431384229268.post-62927991466033231532017-08-23T21:50:43.001+10:002017-08-23T21:50:43.001+10:00Good evening, John. In regard to your first point,...Good evening, John. In regard to your first point, the word hybrid comes to mind. We still don't know how the bits fitted together and may never know that What we do know, is that there were a lot more bits than we realised!<br /><br />On sea levels, my understanding is that there was always a sea level gap even at the lowest sea levels - the Wallace Line - so the trip must have involved sea crossings. If you think about the later settlement of the Pacific Islands, Sahul was just a hop, step and jump away. So why, then, didn't later settlers come to Australia? Some may, of course: I don't properly understand the DNA material on the linkage with Southern India. However, my hypothesis is this.<br /><br />If we look as the later Dutch and Macassan cases, there was simply no imperative for settlement. The Dutch East India Company was interested in profit, and there was nothing on the West Coast they wanted to trade. I am a little surprised they didn't establish a base, there were a lot of ships on that route, but there wasn't a military threat to their shipping. The Macassans came for a particular purpose. There was no reason to stay.<br /><br />I think that another key reason for such little connection was the shift in what was now South East Asia from hunter gathering to a farming culture. Northern Australia is suited to hunter gathering but not really to intensive farming. <br /><br /> Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3005668431384229268.post-78519892227705607682017-08-23T20:11:58.852+10:002017-08-23T20:11:58.852+10:00Quote:- The number of identified hominid species c...Quote:- The number of identified hominid species continues to increase, with modern humans living alongside them in the same time space, and indeed the same geographical space in some cases, for extended periods.<br />And the inter breeding the DNA evidence shows us did occur must have meant change. The offspring were different to the parents and some how we seem willing to accept the first part but not the second, I can understand why but it does tend to make for bad science. A further thought from the map relates to sea level variation over time. If the First Australians could transit the sea crossings all the way to Sahel then the existence of a dry land corridor to form Sahel would be irrelevant to the original settlement of what became Australia when sea levels changed again. Sea level changes may have their importance in preventing subsequent migration and occupation rather than affecting the original. In more recent times it would appear that other barriers were more important as neither Indonesian traders who made seasonal trading voyages or the Dutch who sailed West until they 'hit' the WA coast to then turn to sail North made any attempt to colonise or settle.Johnbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09694479587834247002noreply@blogger.com