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The Mount William stone axe quarry (traditionally known as Wil-im-ee moor-ing) is an Aboriginal Australian archaeological site in Central Victoria, Australia. It is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northeast of Lancefield , off Powells Track, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Romsey and 78 kilometres (48 mi) from Melbourne .
The lake was the location for one of Australia's largest stone axe quarries. [3] The axes were traded amongst Aborigines across distances as far as 1,000 km. Construction began on the Leichhardt Dam in 1956, and was completed on 6 November 1958 at a cost of £1.7 million.
Gabarnmung lies at a remote location on the traditional lands of the Jawoyn people, east of Kakadu National Park, and about 35 km (22 mi) west of Maningrida, Northern Territory. The rock shelter was constructed by tunneling into a naturally eroded cliff face that created a 19 m × 19 m (62 ft × 62 ft) sub-horizontal ceiling ranging in height ...
Researchers found thousands of artefacts and bone fragments, which enabled them to date the shelter's occupation to a number of periods between 49,000 and 10,000 years ago. The finds include the earliest evidence in Australia of the development of bone and stone-axe technology, the use of ochre, and interaction with megafauna such as Diprotodon.
Riddells Road Earth Ring. Aboriginal sites of Victoria form an important record of human occupation for probably more than 40,000 years. They may be identified from archaeological remains, historical and ethnographic information or continuing oral traditions and encompass places where rituals and ceremonies were performed, occupation sites where people ate, slept and carried out their day to ...
Stone axes from 35,000 years ago are the earliest known use of a stone tool in Australia. Other stone tools varied in type and use among various Aboriginal Australian peoples, dependent on geographical regions and the type and structure of the tools varied among the different cultural and linguistic groups. The locations of the various ...
Nov. 3—Parting Stone, the Santa Fe company that solidifies cremated remains into rounded stones, is growing beyond North America. In just three years, founder and CEO Justin Crowe's business has ...
In particular, it was a valued source of stone for stone tools such as hand axes. [ 4 ] In the 2021 census , the town of Mount Isa had a population of 18,317 people, [ 1 ] making Mount Isa the administrative, commercial and industrial centre for the state's vast north-western region.