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Indigenous Australians 'farmed bananas'


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Archaeologists say they have found ancient banana farms once managed by Australia's Indigenous peoples.

The sites, which date back 2,145 years, were found on a tiny island north of the mainland in the Torres Strait.

Researchers found banana microfossils, stone tools, charcoal and a series of retaining walls at the site.

It further dispels the myth that Australia's native peoples were solely "hunter-gatherers", researchers said.

The findings from Mabuyag Island were released by a team from the Australian National University and the University of Sydney on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-53746652

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Humans were gardeners, long before the advent of agriculture. The landscape that greeted the first Europeans to Australia was manmade and had been so for tens of thousands of years. The Aborigines tended the plants that benefited them and groomed the land with fire to create habitats beneficial to animals and plants they relied on.

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