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Timeline of Sites with
Notational Pieces in Sahul (Greater Australia)
- 20,850
Cave Bay
Cave, Hunter Island, Tasmania
Bowdler 1984
- 20,000
Spring
Creek, southwestern Victoria
Vanderwal & Fullagar (1989); White & Flannery (1995)
- 13,000
Devil's Lair,
southwestern
Dortch (1976); cf Bednarik (1998); Dortch (2004)
- 20,000
Yardie
Creek Midden, central Western Australia
Kendrick & Morse (1982); Bowdler (1990 a,b); Morse (1996)
- A macropod femur between 15,400 +/- 330 and 20,850 +/- 290 and a
broken swan tarsometatarsus 6,640 +/- 390 and 3,960 +/- 110
- A Diprotodon incisor 19,800 +/- 390
- 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)
- The midden is undated, but is in an area dating to the
early to mid Holocene.
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
Links
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The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul
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