The Holocene (the name given to the most recent 10000 years of time) began at the end of the last glacial maximum. As the glaciers gradually melted sea-level rose, climate changed and the modern Earth surface we live on was formed. Whilst we in the palaeoclimate community are familiar with this narative from the many fossil records, it is truely remarkable to find events of the Holocene in cultural memory. The Aboriginal peoples of Australia do however have a rich oral history of the Holocene featuring sea-level changes, vegetation changes and the now extinct megafauna. We really have forgotten a lot in Europe....
Indigenous stories offer highly accurate accounts of events that occurred over 10,000 years ago, including known changes in sea levels and the disappearance of land mass, research shows.
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