tasmania was cut off from the mainland in c. 6000 bc.
tasmania was cut off from the mainland in c. 6000 bc.
when was tasmania cut off from the mainland?
c. 6000 bc
evidence indicates the presence of aborigines in tasmania about 42,000 years ago. rising sea levels cut tasmania off from mainland australia about 10,000 years ago and by the time of european contact, the aboriginal people in tasmania had nine major nations or ethnic groups. at the time of the british occupation and colonisation in 1803, the indigenous population was estimated at between 3,000 and 10,000. historian lyndall ryan's analysis of population studies led her to conclude that there were about 7,000 spread throughout the island's nine nations; nicholas clements, citing research by n.j.b. plomley and rhys jones, settled on a figure of 3,000 to 4,000. they engaged in fire-stick farming, hunted game including kangaroo and wallabies, caught seals, mutton-birds, shellfish and fish and lived as nine separate "nations" on the island, which they knew as "trouwunna".
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according to "cricketarchive"'s database, the usee played in 217 matches in which they were the travelling team operating on an itinerant basis by taking on local sides that invariably had odds, typically using 22 players against the usee's eleven. the first of these games took place at dublin in may 1865 and the usee fielded a strong team of surrey and sussex professionals, but the ireland xxii managed a draw. the last-ever match was at stroud on 9, 10 & 11 september 1880, just after the match in hull against the official north. the match against the stoud xxii was drawn. poignantly, it was also the last cricket match ever played by usee stalwart fred grace, who died eleven days later. according to simon rae, the united south died with him.
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