Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

• 24,000-14,000   Koonalda Cave, Nullarbor Plain, southern Australia                    Wright, (1971a)
• Indirect dating     Karlie-ngoinpool Cave, Mt Gambier Region, South Australia      Bodnarik (1984); Flood, (1997)
• 32,000-13,000   Karrku Quarry, central Australia                                                 Smith (1996); Smith et al., (1998)
• 1,000+               Wilgie Mia, Ranges of northern west Australia                             Hiscock (1996); Mulvaney & Kamminga (1999)
• Late Holocene    Bookartoo (Parachilna), South Australia                                      Mulvaney & Kamminga (1999)

Ochre Mining

Flint Mining

Package of cultural Innovations

Sources & Further reading

• Phillip J. Habgood & Natilie R. Franklin, The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 55, 2008
• Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, J. B. Publishing