Climate change facilitated disappearance of pre-historic indigenous people

Climate change facilitated the disappearance of a pre-historic culture predating present-day Aboriginal inhabitants in northern Western Australia.

Researchers from a number of Australian universities made the discovery while investigating the impacts of rapid climate change in the Kimberley region.

The research supports similar studies showing rapid climate change underpinned environmental stresses on prehistory Aboriginal populations.

Read more at University of Queensland

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  1. David Arthur

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    I wonder to what extent, if any, this ENSO-forced collapse of the Australian summer monsoon (somewhere between 7,000 BP and 4,000 BP) coincides with the drying of North Africa that gave rise to Nile Valley civilisation?

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