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  Cuddie Springs: Archaeology, Univ. of Sydney
The first thing we had to do at Cuddie Springs was to determine whether the bones and stones were deposited during a period when people were interacting with megafauna.
Cuddie Springs has been known as a fossil megafauna locality for over a century, however its’ archaeological record has only recently been identified.
Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake.
acl.arts.usyd.edu.au /research/cuddie/cuddie.html   (1745 words)

  
 Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Pleistocene period - About Cuddie Springs
Cuddie Springs is an ancient lake bed in the semi-arid zone of central northern New South Wales.
The round area shown on the aerial photograph is the dry lake bed of Cuddie Springs.
The first clues to a human presence at Cuddie Springs were in 1991 when researchers from the University of New South Wales encountered numerous stone tools during the collection of soil samples for environmental studies.
www.lostkingdoms.com /snapshots/pleistocene_cuddie_springs.htm   (357 words)

  
 Cuddie Springs
Since the Cuddie Springs sand contains mixed age components (Roberts et al's point) it is likely that the larger bits (bones and stones) are also of mixed age.
Any interaction between people and megafauna at Cuddie Springs is still a subjective interpretation based on proximity of bones and stones, and one possibly burnt bone (though why that particular bone is thought to be burnt has not been adequately discussed).
The charcoal and sand so far dated from archaeological units 1 and 2 at Cuddie Springs are in the same time period (35+/-3 ka) as numerous other Australian archaeological sites, equivalent to eg.
mailman.anu.edu.au /pipermail/aqualist/2001-June/000127.html   (930 words)

  
  Info and facts on 'Australian megafauna'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Additionally, elastic ligaments between the toe bones gave this group improved spring and speed compared to modern kangaroos.
Sthenurine forelimbs were long with two extra long fingers and claws compared with the relatively small, stiff arms of modern macropod (additional info and facts about macropod) s.
Late Pleistocene megafauna and archaeology from Cuddie Springs, south-eastern Australia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/australian_megafauna.htm   (1186 words)

  
 Riversleigh and Cuddie Springs: Extinction of Late Pleistocene Megafauna
Ongoing archaeological and palaeontologic research at Cuddie Springs, New South Wales and Riversleigh, Queensland is being linked under a large umbrella project that will explore the Late Pleistocene history of both regions to better answer questions about megafaunal extinctions.
Cuddie Springs is a long-term Centre project in conjunction with Judy Field (University of Sydney) and Richard Fullagar (Australian Museum/University of Wollongong).
Archaeological excavation at Riversleigh, in north-west Queensland and palaeontologic excavation at Cuddie Springs, in northern New South Wales will complete a picture of the animals, people and environment of the prehistoric period at each site.
www.amonline.net.au /anthropology/research/riversleigh.htm   (280 words)

  
 The Science Show: 4 June  2005  - Extinction of Australia's Megafauna
New analysis of a site at Cuddie Springs in Western New South Wales, where both megafauna bones and the tools of people are found together.
Now you can lay that at the feet of humans, they brought them, but the people didn’t actually do it and so it may be a human mediated extinction but it’s not a blitzkrieg as such.
Now seed grinding is a technology that really hasn’t appeared anywhere else in the world until, I think the earliest is about 20,000 years ago, and so what Cuddie Springs could be is one of the core areas for the development of this technology.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s1381705.htm   (1382 words)

  
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Visitor Information and Cultural centre that are personally guided by local aboriginal people and explore the rich aboriginal culture of the
Cuddie Springs an experience not to be missed.
For the fishing enthusiasts, Bre (as the locals call it) is a very popular area for huge Murray Cod, Yellow Belly, Brim and Catfish and that’s not hard to believe considering the
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 Answers about Kangaroos - ChristianAnswers.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For instance, today’s red kangaroos and Tasmanian devils are much smaller than their fossil counterparts.
A recent find at Cuddie Springs in New South Wales, of human tools together with the bones of some of these megafauna, raises the suspicion that people helped drive them to extinction, which of course is no surprise for creationists.
Tests have confirmed that some blood is still present on the tools, which suggests that it was probably nowhere near as long ago as evolutionists say.
christiananswers.net /q-aig/aig-kangaroos.html   (1643 words)

  
 Australia's Megafauna Coexisted With Humans
The best-known site yielding young megafaunal remains is Cuddie Springs, located in south-eastern New South Wales.
The team compared the rare earth element (REE) fingerprints of bone fragments found at different levels within the Cuddie Springs site and proved that bones in each layer came from animals that lived and died together.
This showed that the sediments were not disturbed, validating much younger dates for the fossil megafauna and demonstrating that humans and megafauna co-existed on the Australian continent for at least 15,000 years.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/05/050531215140.htm   (675 words)

  
 Ancient Seafarers
Those who reached New Guinea and Australia, then joined by a landbridge, might have found a better living hunting now extinct species of large marsupials and flightless birds.
Current research at the site of Cuddie Springs near Brewarrina in western New South Wales is demonstrating contemporaneity of humans and megafauna on the Australian continent about 30,000 years ago.
Between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago the Moluccan and island Melanesian archaeological records indicate greater contact and innovation.
cat.he.net /~archaeol/9703/etc/specialreport.html   (1975 words)

  
 Stable isotope and protein analyses of Cuddie Springs Genyornis Archaeology in Oceania - Find Articles
Stable isotope and protein analyses of Cuddie Springs Genyornis Archaeology in Oceania - Find Articles
Stable isotopes and proteins in Genyornis remains from Cuddie Springs are too depleted for dating, but this does not imply the bones are older than surrounding sediments.
Excavations at Cuddie Springs (northern New South Wales) have yielded remains of Diprotodon, Genyornis, Procoptodon, Protemnodon, Pallimnarchus and Sthenurus from sediments dated by calibrated radiocarbon and luminescence at 30-37 ka BP (Field and Dodson, 1999; Field et al., 2001, 2002).
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go1972/is_200404/ai_n9580581   (149 words)

  
 Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Genyornis
Bones of Genyornis have been found with human artefacts, indicating that the last of the thunder birds overlapped with Australia's first people.
Fossils: Skeletons of Genyornis have been found at sites including Lake Callabonna and Naracoorte Caves in South Australia, and Wellington Caves and Cuddie Springs in New South Wales.
Did you know?: Genyornis swallowed pebbles to help break up its food.
www.lostkingdoms.com /facts/factsheet50.htm   (103 words)

  
 Animals at Cuddie Springs: Archaeology, Univ. of Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Animals at Cuddie Springs: Archaeology, Univ. of Sydney
Row 1, right to left: Palorchestes azeal, Zygomatunus trilobus, Diprotodon oplatum, Diprotodon minor, Euowenia grata (Nototherium not shown).
Row 7, Progura naracoortensis, Progura gallinacea, Genyonris newtoni, Megalania prisca, Wonambi naracoortensis.
acl.arts.usyd.edu.au /research/cuddie/animals_cuddie.html   (131 words)

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