If the indigenous people could recreate the pottery, the pottery would have been widespread around Australia within a few centuries. Not only are the indigenous people of Australia the oldest civilisation on the planet, it is barely civilised. No progression from the hunter-gatherer tribespeople in Australia. We might have seen the end of the Stone Age in Europe about 5000 years ago. But the indigenous people never developed the bronze age.

The pottery was traded from visiting boat people who had mastered pottery making. Why else would there be fragments of pottery on one island, if the Australian colonisers smashed their culture up to 220 years ago? The indigenous would not have straight up forgotten how to make pottery. And we would be seeing much newer remnants of pottery today that was made by indigenous Australians as late as the 1920s.

So, the core problem with micro-regional discoveries of artefacts on the Australian continent and surrounding islands, is the tendency to attribute, in the popular imagination, whatever technology is required to create those artefacts to the 'Australian Aboriginal people'  as opposed to an Australian Aboriginal people.

This tendency is due to ignorance informed only by urban myth bullshittery, passing for history.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 13^th, 2024 at 1:23pm:


Why is it that Yellow people could build great architectural cities, Great Walls, massive statues, big ships, huge armies, places of spiritual respite, social heirarchies and other major cultural contributions right down to a strong samurai sword?

...while 'Black' people only invented leaves to wipe their bums in the African bush while herding cattle and selling their people off as Slaves?

As for India - the majority of Cultural enrichment came from the Aryans in the north, while the Dravidians in the south could only offer up their black skin.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 13^th, 2024 at 1:23pm:


So explain to us mere mortals when the aboriginal people lost the ability to make pottery.

Must have kept yabbies in them:-

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/yabbying-still-elicits-a-sense-of-nosta...

lee wrote on Apr 14^th, 2024 at 3:12pm:


They didn't lose it - they never had it................ this 'researcher' is hoping there might be some connection somewhere...... it was just some travelers passing through... ships in the night....

Aborigines are 2% Neanderthal and 6% Denisovan.

They are practically a different species.

They never had pottery - other cultures visited this continent for thousands of years - Indian and Makassar people for example. 

Aborigines are Stone Age - Paleolithic who never even made it to Neolithic stage and they were Cannibals who raped murdered and ate babies.

If I never see another one again in my whole life it will be too soon.

Brian has made no responses or further posts to his initial post on this topic. I dare say he just left the topic here as bait to irritate the commonsense thinking people. If this was a court of law, the argument would be conclusive that the aborigines traded for the pottery, that was not made in Australia.

I would argue that the number of potters in Australia of indigenous heritage (including those that are as white as Pascoe) since the time of Federation would probably not make up the numbers of a football game.