Archaeologists from the Australian National University excavating at Wagadagam, on the island of Mabuyag, in the western Torres Strait, have published new evidence of early Indigenous communities having managed and cultivated crops 2,145 years ago suggesting these people who for so long have been called “hunters” were also “cultivators”.
Mabuyag History is Bananas
The island of Mabuyag is part of the Bellevue Islands located about 100 kilometers (62 mi) north of Arnolds Passage in the Torres Strait, but the island was originally called “ Jervis Island ” on English maps having been named by Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS of the Royal Navy who was an 18th century colonial administrator.
