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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -
Hundreds of human footprints dating back to the last Ice Age have been found in the remote Australian Outback, an official and media reported Thursday.
The 457 footprints found in Mungo National Park in western New South Wales state is the largest collection of its kind in the world and the oldest in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported.
Originally posted by atomic811
it would also state to they seem that they were in health sick children usually dont usually run in circles and play when ill ..so i assume that they were also happy. i would love to know what they ate.. if they cooked..did they eat meat.. i wish we had a time machine i would love too see these things.. maybe even help us in the future as to what foods we ate before the supermarkets popped up and all the chems got dumped into the food lol wonder what they talked about.
Originally posted by atomic811
it would also state to they seem that they were in health sick children usually dont usually run in circles and play when ill ..so i assume that they were also happy.
i would love to know what they ate.. if they cooked..did they eat meat..
i wish we had a time machine i would love too see these things.. maybe even help us in the future as to what foods we ate before the supermarkets popped up and all the chems got dumped into the food
Aboriginal food and diets before European settlement
The Aborigines' food supplies before contact depended on the locality and season; in the interior of the country, food supplies were often scarce and the unpredictable water supplies affected survival. Animal foods that were hunted included mammals (eg, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, bandicoots, and bats), reptiles (eg, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, goannas, and other lizards), birds (eg, emus, parrots, bush turkeys, and ducks), and fish in rivers and along the coast. The eggs of many of these creatures were important. The men hunted large animals like kangaroos and emus. Insects such as honey ants and wild bees provided honey that was and still is popular in remote areas—this was an important carbohydrate source. Witchetty grubs are high in fat and have a composition similar to that of olive oil—these grubs are eaten raw or are lightly cooked in the ashes of a small open fire. The fatty parts of animals such as goannas were traditionally very popular after being cooked whole on red hot coals on the ground and turned occasionally so that the skin could be cooked; in northern Australia, food may be steamed while wrapped in leaves (or, today, in metal foil).
The seashore and river estuaries provided not only fish, sharks, stingrays, and dugongs, but also crabs, oysters, mussels, other shellfish, and snails. Inland waters were very important for fish, crustaceans, turtles, snakes, and birds and for plants such as water lilies.
The rich supply of plants the Aborigines ate included wild plums, apples, peaches, berries, figs, grapes, oranges, and desert bananas; the wild plum, Terminalia fernandiana, is the richest known natural source of vitamin C. There are also bush tomatoes and native vegetables such as carrots, onions, and bush potatoes. A variety of yams exists in different environments from the coast to the deserts. There is also a large range of nuts indigenous to Australia, including the macadamia nut and local chestnuts, walnuts, and almonds; these are most plentiful in Queensland (7). Seeds from bushes, such as mulga and acacia, and from grasses were painstakingly prepared and ground into a paste from which damper (a type of bread) was prepared by slow cooking or baking by using the coals of an open fire and eaten with other foods (8).
lol wonder what they talked about.