Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 12:11
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of Indigenous communities cultivating bananas in Australia. The evidence of cultivation and plant management dates back 2,145 years and was found at Wagadagam on the tiny island of Mabuyag in the western Torres Strait.