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THE SEARCH FOR ICE AGE, COLD CLIMATE LIVING

A collaborative team of Traditional Owners and archaeologists is tackling an Australian Alps
mystery. Back in the last ice age, the rich Tasmanian archaeological record tells us that
ancestral Palawa communities were highly adapted to living in subantarctic cold-climate
landscapes. At this time, Aboriginal communities could walk between Tasmania and the
mainland, connected by a land bridge where Bass Strait is today, and it is likely that cold-climate adaptive knowledge and technologies were being shared. Given this, why does the archaeological record in the Australian Alps seem to begin after the ice age ended?

Read more in News from the Alps edition #112 I April 2026