What Scientists Keep Finding Beneath the Great Barrier Reef Has Shocked the Entire World

The Great Barrier Reef is sitting directly on top of a human history most visitors never learn about. During the last ice age, the area where the reef now stands was dry land, with rivers, forests, and grasslands that Aboriginal peoples lived on and hunted across. Oral histories accurately describe a coastline that disappeared underwater over 10,000 years ago. And in April 2024, a discovery on Lizard Island uncovered the oldest pottery ever found in Australia, directly overturning decades of accepted archaeological belief. The coral is only a few thousand years old. The human connection to this coastline goes back sixty thousand.

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