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Erin Wilkins, Aboriginal Cultural Educator, Trainer and Facilitator, Indigenous Knowledge

Ice Age shelter high up in the Blue Mountains reveals Aboriginal heritage from 20,000 years ago

Artist's impression of Dargan Shelter as it would have looked during the last Ice Age. Painting by Leanne Watson Redpath

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.

At an elevation of 1,073 metres, you will find Dargan Shelter, an ancient rock shelter resembling a large amphitheatre. Looking around, you could easily assume this cold and barren high country was too difficult for people to spend time in.

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