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Acknowledgements
For guiding me through ways of hearing, reading and understanding ancient stories, I would especially like to thank Marjorie Le Berre, Earle de Blonville, Jen Carter, Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan,
Axel Creach, Marie-Yvane Daire, Robert Dixon, Paul Geraghty, Diane Goodwillie, Duane Hamacher, Roselyn Kumar, Frédéric Le Blay, Bruce Masse, Sepeti Matararaba, Elia Nakoro, Petra Nunn, Nick Reid, John Runman, Margaret Sharpe and Dorothy Vitaliano as well as numerous others who have encouraged and challenged me. I thank the competent team at Bloomsbury, especially Jim Martin and Anna MacDiarmid, as well as my copy editor Krystyna Mayer. My family could not have been more supportive – to them this book is dedicated.
Index
Adansonia gregorii here
agriculture here, here
animals here, here
animal domestication here, here
climate change here
ice ages here
migrations here
Antarctic Cold Reversal here
Antarctica here
Dome C here
asteroids here
Atlantis here, here
Australia here
climate here, here, here
postglacial sea-level rise here, here, here
Terra Australis here, here
volcanic activity here
Australian Aboriginals here, here, here, here, here
bunyip here, here, here
coastal drowning stories here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
DNA here
Dreaming (Tjukurrpa) here, here, here
earliest known settlements here
meteor falls stories here
Mungo Man here
Rainbow Serpent here, here, here
rock art here, here, here, here
use of controlled fires here, here
volcanic activity stories here, here, here
water access here, here
Banks, Joseph here
baobab trees here
Barker, Collet here
Bate Bay, Australia here
Bathurst Island, Australia here
bedrock here, here, here, here, here
Berndt, Ronald and Catherine here
birds here
bolides here, here
Borre, Norway here
Botany Bay, Australia here
Bremer Bay, Australia here, here, here
British here, here, here
collection of Aboriginal stories here, here, here, here, here, here, here
observations of Australia here
British Isles here
Brittany, France here
Brue Reef, Australia here
Bujangga Manik here
Cairns, Australia here
Cape Cod, Massachusetts here
Cape Don, Australia here
Carnac Island, Australia here
Carpenter’s Gap, Australia here
Caucasus Mountains, Eurasia here
cave dwellers here
cave painting here
Channel Islands (Îles de la Manche) here
Channel Islands, California here
charcoal here
clathrate-gun hypothesis here
climate change here, here
clothing here
coastal drowning here, here
Bate Bay, Australia here
Bathurst and Melville Islands, Australia here
Botany Bay, Australia here
Bremer Bay, Australia here, here
Brittany, France here
Brue Reef, Australia here
Cairns, Australia here
Cape Don, Australia here
Elcho Island, Australia here
Fowler’s Bay, Australia here
Gippsland, Australia here
Goulburn Islands, Australia here
Gulf of Carpenteria, Australia here
Hinchinbrook and Palm Islands, Australia here
Kangaroo Island, Australia here
MacDonnell Bay, Australia here
Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands, Australia here
Nullarbor Desert, Australia here
Oyster Harbour, Australia here, here
Port Phillip Bay, Australia here
Rottnest, Carnac and Garden Islands, Australia here
sea-level changes and coastal drowning stories from north-west Europe here
Spencer Gulf, Australia here, here, here, here
White-topped Rocks, Australia here
see also sea levels
Cook, James here, here, here, here, here, here, here
cooling here, here, here, here
cooperation here, here
coral reefs here
Cornwall, England here
Cosgrove Track, Australia here, here, here
Crater Lake, Oregon here, here, here, here, here
crops here
Dampier, William here
Dawson, James ‘Jimmy’ here
Dead Sea here
Delphic Oracle, Ancient Greece here
denudation here, here
Derinzy, Mrs here
Devil’s Lair, Australia here
dingoes here
Diprotodon here
Dixon, Robert The Languages of Australia here, here
DNA here
Doggerland here, here, here
Dwaraka, India here, here
earthquakes here, here
Helike Earthquake, Mediterranean 373 BC here
island collapses here
Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal 1755 here
Newcastle Earthquake, Australia 1989 here
Rann of Kachchh, India here
East Anglia, England here
El Niño here, here
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) here, here
Elcho Island, Australia here
Emerson, Ralph Waldo here
EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) here
Eratosthenes here
extinct animals here, here, here
australia here
birds here
hominids here
ice age fauna here
megafaunal extinctions here, here, here
Fiji here, here
fish species here
flank collapses here
Flinders, Matthew here, here, here, here
forests here, here
submerged forests here, here
Fowler’s Bay, Australia here
fur-seal hunting here
Garden Island, Australia here
Genyornis newtoni here, here
Gippsland, Australia here
Goulburn Islands, Australia here
Great Barrier Reef, Australia here, here
Gribble, Ernest here
Gulf of Carpenteria, Australia here
Haliichthys taeniophorus here
Hall, Thomas here
Hawaii here, here
Haygarth, Henry here
Hillman, John W. here
Hinchinbrook Island, Australia here
history here
Holocene Interglacial here
hominids here, here
Homo floriensis here
Homo sapiens here, here, here
migrations here
hotspots here, here
Hull, William here
ice ages here, here, here
fauna here
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) here, here, here, here, here, here, here
melting ice here
rising sea levels here
Iceland here, here
imagination here, here, here
impact craters here
Indian sacred texts here
Indonesia here
Ireland here
island collapses here
Fatu Haku, Marquesas Islands here
Teonimenu, Solomon Islands here
isostatic rebound here, here
Japan here, here
Kangaroo Island, Australia here
Kerguelen Islands here
Kerguelen-Trémarec, Yves de here, here
Klamath here, here, here, here, here, here
La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey here
&nb
sp; La Niña here, here
land movements here, here
clathrate-gun hypothesis here
rising and sinking here, here
landslides here
islands here
Storegga Slide here
language here, here
Australian Aboriginals here, here, here
Last Glacial here
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Last Interglacial here
Le Berre, Marjorie here
legacy stories here
literacy here, here, here, here, here
Loch Ness Monster here
Louis XV of France here
Macassar here
MacDonnell Bay, Australia here
Magellan, Ferdinand here
Mahabalipuram, India here, here
Mahabharata here
Malakunanja, Australia here, here, here
Manet, François here
mangroves here
Maui here
McCrae, Georgiana here
Mediterranean Sea here
meltwater here
Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP-1A) here
Melville Island, Australia here
memory here, here
Dreaming (Tjukurrpa) here, here, here
meteorite strikes here, here, here, here
Australia here
Campo del Cielo, Argentina here
Tunguska, Siberia here, here
migrations here
Mimbi Caves, Australia here
Mitchell, Sir Thomas here
Moore, George Fletcher here
Moreton Island, Australia here
Mt Eacham, Australia here, here, here, here
Mt Eccles, Australia here, here, here, here
Mt Fuji (Fujisan), Japan here
Mt Gambier, Australia here, here, here
Mt Mazama here, here, here, here
Mt Muirhead, Australia here, here
Mt Schank, Australia here, here
Mt St Helens here
Mungo Man here
myth here
euhemeristic myth here
Native Americans here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Nauwalabila, Australia here, here, here
New Guinea here
Nile Delta here
Nisqually here
North Stradbroke Island, Australia here
Nullarbor Desert, Australia here
oral tradition here, here, here
Dreaming (Tjukurrpa) here, here, here
memory here
tale types here