Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

• Cope's Rule and Romer's Theory: patterns of diversity and gigantism in eurypterids and paleozoic vertebrates
• The Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era: 444-416 Mya
• Paleozoic lake faunas: establishing aquatic life on land
• Agnathans, early jawed fishes, chondrichthyans, Osteichthyans, Fig.1, Cladoselache, Vertebrate paleontology and evolution
• Evolution of taxonomic diversity in amphiaspids (Agnatha, Heterostraci, Amphiaspidiformes) and the causes of extinction in ecological favorable conditions
• Vertebrate dentitions at the origin of jaws: when and how pattern evolved
• Scientsits Discover the Evolutionary Origin of Fins, Limbs
• The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb
• The origin of vertebrate limbs
• Canowindra grossi
• Ichthyostega
• Ichthyostega images
• Devonian Times, Ichthyostega spp
• Dunkleosteus
• Panderichthys
• Panderichthys images
• The pectoral fin of Panderichthys and the origin of digits
• The origin and early diversification of tetrapods
• Palaeontology: a firm step from water to land
• Palaeontology: fins made for walking
• Fish with fingers?
• The pelvic fin and girdle of Panderichthys and the origin of tetrapod locomotion
• DNA traces Aboriginal Australian history
• Australian Aborigines of Indian Origin?
• Genetic variation in the Australian Dingo
• Humans in Australia as long as 78,000 years ago
• The Pleistocene Peopling of Greater Australia: A Re-examination
• The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul
• Aboriginal Resources
• Australian Aborigines
• Australian Aboriginal Astronomy
• Rocky Ways to secrets of the Sky
• Australian_Aboriginal_Astronomy - wikipedia
• Aboriginal Astronomy - Questacon
• Aboriginal Astronomy - Neilloan
• Emu Dreaming
• Aboriginal folklore leads to meteorite crater
• Emu Dreaming: An Introduction to Aboriginal Astronomy by Ray & Cilla Norris
• Cosmogenic Mega-tsunami in the Australia region
• Australian Aborigines of Indian Origin?
• Humans in Australia as long as 78,000 years ago
• The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul
• The Pleistocene Peopling of Greater Australia: A Re-examination
• Aboriginal inventions
• Jared Diamond Talk
• Aboriginal Kings
• New evidence from Fraser Cave for glacial age man in southwest Tasmania
• DNA traces Aboriginal Australian history
• Australian Aborigines of Indian Origin?
• Genetic variation in the Australian Dingo
• Humans in Australia as long as 78,000 years ago
• The Pleistocene Peopling of Greater Australia: A Re-examination
• The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul
• Aboriginal Resources
• Australian Aborigines
• New evidence from Fraser Cave for glacial age man in southwest Tasmania
• DNA traces Aboriginal Australian history
• Australian Aborigines of Indian Origin?
• Genetic variation in the Australian Dingo
• Humans in Australia as long as 78,000 years ago
• The Pleistocene Peopling of Greater Australia: A Re-examination
• The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul
• Aboriginal Resources
• Australian Aborigines
• Phillip J. Habgood & Natilie R. Franklin, The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 55, 2008
• http://anthropology.si.edu/HumanOrigins/ha/weid.html
• Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia
• The geometry of hobbits: Homo floresiensis and human evolution
• What Is the Hobbit?
• Homo floresiensis
• Hominins lived on Flores for nealry 1 millionyears before the "hobbit".
• Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by 1 million years ago
• Meet X-woman - a possible new species of human
• The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of a an unknown hominin from southern Siberia
• Fossil finger points to new human species
• No Bones about it - Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown Human Relative
• Hominins on nature.com
• Why did human populations disperse from Acfrica ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model
• An Australasian test of the recent African origin theory using the WLH-50 calvarium
• Unknown mt DNA lineage found in 40,000 [year old] hominid Russia-Neanderthal connection
• Neanderthal Man
• Evolution-Out of Africa and the Eve Hypothesis (Chris Stringer)
• Discoverer of "Lucy" raises questions about Australopithecus sediba, the new human species from South Africa
• Possible causes and significance of cranial robusticity among Pleistocene-Early Holocene Australians, Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 36, Issue 4, April 2009, pages 980-990.
• How Hominids Adapted to Past Climate Change? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hominids-adapt-to-past-climate-change&sc=DD_20100414
• Neanderthal symbolism-Evidence suggests a biological basis for symbolic thought
• Neanderthals not the only apes humans bred with
• Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites
• Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula)
• Archaeology and Rock Art in the Dampier Archipelago
• Ngadjonji Technology
• Shelter
• Weapons and Tools
• Making a Shield
• Basketmaking
• Lawyercanes
• Fire
• Before Cook
• Bogong Moths - The Australian Museum

• The Age of the Megafauna
• Australian Beasts
• Queensland Marsupial lion
• Thylacoleo carnifex fossils
• Marsupial lion found in Aboriginal rock art

• Cave Painting Depicts Extinct Marsupial Lion

• Systematic seasonal land use by late Pleistocene Tasmanian Aborigines

• Ngurunderi
• http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/ngurunderi/ng9htm.htm 
• Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago Quaternary Research, Vol.55, Issue 1, January 2001, p 3-13.
• West Coast Range
• Pleistocene Glaciation of the King Valley, Western Tasmania, Australia

• West Coast Range
• Pleistocene Glaciation of the King Valley, Western Tasmania, Australia
• Linda Valley
• Palaeomagnetic constraints on the ages of Tasmanian glaciations
• Terrestrial and marine records of the last glaciation from western Tasmania: Do they agree?
• Late glacial and Holocene vegetation history at Poets Hill lake, western Tasmania

• Pleistocene Human Occupation and Extinct Fauna in Cloggs Cave, Buchan, South-east Australia
• 8523 (8522)-24 The Thrust Fault Area
• Pleistocene Man at Cloggs Cave: His Toolkit and Environment

• Problems of a Late Palaeozoic glaciation in Australia and subsequent climate in the Permian
• Cold climate in the eastern Australian mid to late Permian may reflect cold upwelling waters

• Stratigraphic imprint of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age in eastern Australia: a record of alternating glacial and nonglacial climate regime

• Regolith

• The Dreaming Origins

• Genetic variation in the Australian Dingo

• Archaeology and Rock Art of the Dampier Archipelago
• Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula)

• Aborigines may have farmed eels, built huts
• Fish Traps and Drainage Systems
• Secrets of the stones
• Coutts, P. J. F. (Peter J. F), Aboriginal Engineers of the Western Districts, Victoria, Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey; No.7
• Brewarrina Fish traps

Sources & Further reading