Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Timeline of Sites with Notational Pieces in Sahul (Greater Australia)                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  1. 20,850    Cave Bay Cave, Hunter Island, Tasmania                Bowdler 1984
  2. 20,000    Spring Creek, southwestern Victoria                       Vanderwal & Fullagar (1989); White & Flannery (1995)
  3. 13,000    Devil's Lair, southwestern                                       Dortch (1976); cf Bednarik (1998); Dortch (2004)
  4. 20,000    Yardie Creek Midden, central Western Australia    Kendrick & Morse (1982); Bowdler (1990 a,b); Morse (1996)

 

  1. A macropod femur between 15,400 +/- 330 and 20,850 +/- 290 and a broken swan tarsometatarsus 6,640 +/- 390 and 3,960 +/- 110
  2. A Diprotodon incisor 19,800 +/- 390
  3. A limestone plaque between 19,00 and 13,200 (original dates 11,960 +/- 140 and 12,050 +/- 140), another plaque from a layer dated to between 24,950-26,050 (25,500 +/- 275) years ago (originally 20,400 +/- 1000)
  4. The midden is undated, but is in an area dating to the early to mid Holocene.

 

Package of cultural Innovations

Sources & Further reading

  1. Phillip J. Habgood & Natilie R. Franklin, The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 55, 2008

Links

  1. The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul

 

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