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I just got a reply from a mate in the state’s anthropology department who has a few interesting details concerning the Tasmanian Aborigines:
- They stopped eating fish. No good reason has ever been determined and seems to be entirely a cultural tradition. Given that the rivers of Tasmania teem with fresh water fish and giant crayfish it is extremely odd.
- They didn’t have composite tools. It isn’t know if they ever did have them.
- They lived alongside glaciers (and yes, had and could make fire)
- Did not have dingos to hunt with. Since dingos are belived to have been brought to Australia as a hunting dog about 5000 years ago this does not constitute a lost technology.
- Were the longest isolated group in history, being cut off from the rest of the world for 12,000 years.
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