The indigenous people of Tasmania are clearly related to the indigenous people of Australia, but were separated from them when the land bridge between Australia and Tasmania disappeared approximately 10,000 years ago. ███ ████████ █████ █████ ███ █████████████ ██ ███ ████ ███████ ████████ █████ ████ █████ ███████████ ███████ ███ ███████ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██████████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████████████ ███ ██████████ ███████████ ██████ █████ ██████████ ██████████ ███ ██ ████████████ █████ ███████ █████ ████████ █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ████ ███ █████████ ███ ███ ██████████████
Why did indigenous Australians and indigenous Tasmanians develop such different cultures and technologies within 2,000 years of being separated?
The correct answer must fail to explain why indigenous Australians developed technologies that indigenous Tasmanians did not. Every wrong answer, meanwhile, will offer a difference between the groups explaining why their cultures and technologies diverged.
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This is a difference between the groups that explains the technological discrepancy. Both cultures were positioned to make the developments in question, but the indigenous Tasmanians gave up some tools and practices.
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This deepens the mystery. Indigenous Tasmanians invented these technologies, yet they were absent from Tasmanian society 2,000 years later.
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This explains the technological discrepancy. Polynesian explorers are responsible, because they introduced technologies to indigenous Australians but not to indigenous Tasmanians.
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This contributes to an explanation of the technological discrepancy. Indigenous Australians developed these tools after the land bridge disappeared, so they were not introduced to indigenous Tasmanians.
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This contributes to an explanation of the technological discrepancy. Indigenous Tasmanians were not introduced to the developers of these technologies before the land bridge disappeared.
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