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Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Tough - unless they documented being there they still will never be the 1st known European discoverers of Aus.
The gun being 500 years old just puts a limt on when it was made - it could have been left here any time after that, and unless you get some "context" - ie stuff that is found around it such as wreckage, pottery, etc., no-one will ever know anything about how it got there.
And in the end it doesn't mater anyway.
Historically interesting - but breaking alternative news?? Don't think so!
In my opinion the government covers up any existance of non-aboriginal peoples here as it is not PC and would destabilise the system that has been set up around their existence.