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The prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the colonisation of Australia in 1788, which marks the start of consistent written documentation of Australia. This period has been variously estimated, with most evidence suggesting that it goes back between 50,000 and 65,000 years.
The area formed in a slow tectonic plate collision during the Paleoproterozoic era, 2.5–1.6 billion years ago . The Kimberley Craton, moving south-eastwards, collided with the North Australia Craton, resulting in a series of deformations creating the Hooper Complex and Lamboo Complex.
This is a list of Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites. Key: BGS = Below ground surface; ... Western Australia; Rottnest Island: Charles Dortch, ...
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
Map of Sahul with Sunda. Sahul (/ s ə ˈ h uː l /), also called Sahul-land, Meganesia, Papualand and Greater Australia, [1] was a paleocontinent that encompassed the modern-day landmasses of mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands.
Completely open to the north and south, construction has left the shelter entirely protected from rainfall. The rock shelter features prehistoric paintings of fish, including the Barramundi, wallabies, crocodiles, people and spiritual figures. Most of the paintings are located on the shelter's ceiling, but many are found on the walls and ...
Previous theories had suggested that Tasmania emerged from central Australia as the supercontinents broke apart, but the recent spectroscopic and radioactive dating evidence contradicts this. Tasmania's geographic location during the Precambrian is still unclear, but it is clear that some of it was linked to an area of ancient North America.
The approximately 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) area has fossil remains of ancient mammals, birds, and reptiles of the Oligocene and Miocene ages, many of which were discovered and are only known from the Riversleigh area; the species that have occurred there are known as the Riversleigh fauna.