2015

Posted on 14/04/2015 by Geoff Vivian

TEXT AND PICTURE BY GEOFF VIVIAN

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I love to do development stories because most local papers neglect this important area.

What is done with our physical environment affects us all once it is built, and I think it needs to be in the news beforehand.

The former caravan park featured a popular little shop on a beach 21 kilometres from Albany’s town centre.

It was all demolished in the last decade to make way for a resort that never eventuated.

[From The Great Southern Weekender, March 19 2015, p7.]

Sophisticated stone axes ‘not invented in Europe’ 9/4/2014

Posted on 12/04/2015 by Geoff Vivian

Photo Chris Langluddecke

The first edge ground stone axes were not invented in Europe.

They appeared in the central Kimberley at least 30,000 years ago.

“The suggestion that all innovation has to come from the Old World is not true because clearly ground-stone axes were created here,” archaeologist Prof Balme says.

She notes that they were also made in Japan at a slightly later date, by people who would have had no contact with either Australian Aborigines or people in Africa and Europe. Continue reading →

Judas camels betray their mates 25/2/2015

Posted on 09/04/2015 by Geoff Vivian

A MURDOCH University molecular ecologist says “Judas camels” fitted with tracking devices greatly enhance the chances of finding and subsequently culling wild camels (Camelus dromedarius) in Australia’s deserts.