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Emma Bryce

Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal

The Pilbara coast of Western Australia flying towards the Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility, operated by Chevron Corp., at Barrow Island, Australia, on Monday, July 24, 2023.

An analysis of over 4,000 stone artifacts discovered on an island off northwestern Australia provides a snapshot of Aboriginal life tens of thousands of years ago.

The discovery underscores the "long-term connections" that Indigenous peoples have to modern-day Australia, said David Zeanah, an anthropologist at California State University, Sacramento and lead author of a new study describing the analysis.

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