{"id":179326,"date":"2023-12-27T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/ancient-landmass-emerged-and-disappeared-70000-years-ago"},"modified":"2023-12-27T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:45:47","slug":"ancient-landmass-emerged-and-disappeared-70000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/ancient-landmass-emerged-and-disappeared-70000-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Landmass Emerged and Disappeared 70,000 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-landmass-emerged-and-disappeared-70000-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New archaeological research reveals that the sea off northwestern Australia once had <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/2023\/12\/06\/humans-sailed-aegean-islands-450000-years-ago-new-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">islands<\/a> and a massive landmass. This area was so large it could support around half a million people, as reported in a study published in <em>Quaternary Science Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277379123004663?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> maps a world that appeared and then disappeared as sea levels changed over the past seventy thousand years. People are believed to have migrated to this part of the world between forty-five thousand to sixty-five thousand years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The area was part of a paleocontinent called Sahul, connecting Australia to New Guinea. The submersion of this land might have led to significant cultural and population changes in northern Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New archaeological research reveals that the sea off northwestern Australia once had islands and a massive landmass. This area was so large it could support around half a million people, as reported in a study published in Quaternary Science Review. The study maps a world that appeared and then disappeared as sea levels changed over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}