Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

A weathered fragment of bone, possibly from a dugong, has been found on the surface of a shell midden that had 5 lines of parallel incised zig-zags on it that were 1.5-2 mm deep along its length. The midden is undated but others from the area have been dated to the early to mid Holocene. It is thought it may be recent.

Sources & Further reading

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