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This is a list of Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites. Key: BGS = Below ground surface; C14 = Radiocarbon date; char. = charcoal;
[5] [6] The oldest human remains found are at Lake Mungo in New South Wales, which have been dated to around 41,000 years ago. [7] [8] At the time of first European contact, estimates of the Aboriginal population range from 300,000 to one million. [9] [10] [11] They were complex hunter-gatherers with diverse economies and societies. There were ...
Arnhem Land, Australia: 65–50: Madjedbebe: The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study.
Australian archaeology is a large sub-field in the discipline of archaeology.Archaeology in Australia takes four main forms: Aboriginal archaeology (the archaeology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before and after European settlement), historical archaeology (the archaeology of Australia after European settlement), maritime archaeology and the archaeology of the ...
Three areas of the Australian landmass that are made of Archaean rocks are more than 2.5 billion years old, among the oldest known rocks. These igneous and metamorphic rocks are found in the Yilgarn (West) and Pilbara (North) cratons in today's Western Australia and the Gawler (South) craton which makes up the Eyre Peninsula in South
Australia: Lived in a prehistoric floodplain close to a high energy river Fostoria: 2019 Griman Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian) Australia: Four individuals have been found in association Fulgurotherium: 1932 Griman Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian) Australia: Fragmentary, but may have been an elasmarian [5 ...
A marsupial lion skeleton in the Naracoorte Caves, South Australia. The term Australian megafauna refers to the megafauna in Australia [1] during the Pleistocene Epoch.Most of these species became extinct during the latter half of the Pleistocene, and the roles of human and climatic factors in their extinction are contested.
Pages in category "Prehistoric life of Australia" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. M. Lake Mungo remains