Research findings back up Aboriginal legend on origin of Central Australian palm trees
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-03/aboriginal-legend-palm-tree-origin-central-australia-research/6369832
The scientific world is stunned by research which backs an Aboriginal legend about how palm trees got to Central Australia.
Several years ago Tasmanian ecologist David Bowman did DNA tests on palm seeds from the outback and near Darwin.
Professor David Bowman, University of Tasmania
The results led him to conclude the seeds were carried to the Central Desert by humans up to 30,000 years ago.
Professor Bowman read an Aboriginal legend recorded in 1894 by pioneering German anthropologist and missionary Carl Strehlow, which was only recently translated, describing the “gods from the north” bringing the seeds to Palm Valley
