"Previously, Macassan have been identified in Arnhem Land rock art, with the oldest dated to between the late 1500s and early 1600s. "This rigorous research convincingly shows evidence of contact between Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land, Australia, and mariners from Moluccan islands hundreds of years ago," he said. Paul Tacon, a distinguished professor at the Griffith University Centre for Social Cultural Research in Australia who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email that the artwork offers a greater understanding of how Aboriginal people recorded their meetings with foreign visitors. 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Arabia may be world's oldest megastructure blueprints Ancient remains found in Indonesia belong to a vanished human lineage Ancient people may have created cave art while hallucinating Some of the earliest recorded instances of Indonesian island inhabitants sailing to Australia's northern coast occurred in the mid-17th century, according to the statement.Īssuming the Moluccans brought their ships to Australia, the presence of these fighting vessels in Australia "would support a significant departure from the accepted narrative of Macassan coastal fishing and trading" and provides better understanding of contact between the two groups, study co-author Wendy van Duivenvoorde, an associate professor of marine archaeology at Flinders University, said in the statement. "These motifs support existing ideas that sporadic or accidental voyages from Indonesia to the Australian coastline took place before or alongside regular trepang (sea cucumber) fishing visits," lead author Mick de Ruyter, a maritime archaeologist and associate professor at Flinders University, said in the statement.
(Image credit: Photo courtesy of the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Coll.
Ceremonial perahu from the Kai islands, Moluccas.
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