Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Walkunder Arch Cave

The cave is situated near Chillagoe. A long cultural sequence has been found here, occupation goes back more than 18,000 years. There are 2 patinanted geometric engravings, and a horsehoof core was found in the basement level, as well as a waisted tool, shells and wallaby bones. Burnt antbed or termite mound were found throughout the deposit, indicating that it was used as fuel up to near modern times.

See Aboriginal Occupation of south central Tasmania

Sources & Further reading

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