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First ancient Aboriginal underwater sites discovered off Pilbara coast


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Scientists have discovered Australia's first ever ancient Aboriginal underwater archaeological sites, settled on the sea bed for thousands of years.

Hidden relics, including hundreds of stone tools and grinding stones, have been found at two sites off Western Australia's remote Pilbara region, close to the Burrup Peninsula which is renowned for its ancient rock engravings.

The discoveries of 269 artefacts at Cape Bruguieres and an 8,500-year-old underwater freshwater spring at Flying Foam Passage off Dampier were published today in the open access scientific journal PLOS One.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/aboriginal-underwater-site-discovered-off-burrup-peninsula/12391858

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?

 

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Update:

Australia's first marine Aboriginal archaeological site questioned

A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artifacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia represent Australia's first undisturbed underwater archaeological site.

The original findings were made in a study published in 2020 in PLOS ONE, by a team of archaeologists and scientists from Flinders University, UWA, James Cook University, ARA (Airborne Research Australia) and the University of York.

The team partnered with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation to locate and investigate stone scatters at two sites in the Dampier Archipelago.

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-australia-marine-aboriginal-archaeological-site.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.21917

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