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Thanks for all these various comments and links. There are just so many resonances for me with our history of massacres of Aboriginals by settlers (including the mass slaughter of old men, women and children while the men were away hunting), the cover-ups about these events, the spreading of disease, and so on.
In connection with your information on megafauna Belle, there was speculation here that it was the Aboriginal peoples who exterminated the megafauna in Australia. However more recent studies now suggest that they died out during a 10,000 year drought here. They couldn't survive it, but the humans managed to do so as they had learned to dig for access to underground aquifers.
I have just got into Part 3 and am enjoying the book very much, so thank you again Belle!
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