Australian Aboriginal Archaeology
Excavations
Excavation work includes the removal of soil or rock from a site to form an open face, hole or cavity. This includes trenches, shafts and tunnels.
Kow Swamp (Images)
Artificial Cranial Deformation
Aboriginal Tools (Images)
Devil’s Lair – Cave in Western Australia
Cave Excavations in the Australian Nullarbor
Aboriginal Excavations (Images)
Lake Mungo : Oldest Remains in Australia
29,000 Years of Aboriginal History
Pre-history of Carnarvon Gorge
Middens
Radiocarbon dating of shell middens – remnants of meals eaten long ago … to become the oldest River Murray Indigenous site in South Australia.?
Shell Middens (Images)
Fact Sheet: Aboriginal Coastal Shell Middens
Aboriginal Fresh Water Middens
Guide to Aboriginal Sites and Places
Timeline for Aboriginal Victoria
Australian Deserts
By far the largest part of Australia is arid or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia’s mainland consists of named deserts, while additional areas are considered to have a desert climate based on low rainfall and high temperature.
Archaeology of the Australian Desert
Simpson Desert Aboriginal People
Living the Traditional Aboriginal Life
Maralinga: How British Nuclear Tests Changed History Forever
Archaeological Sites
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.
Guide to Aboriginal Sites and Places
Indigenous Tools and Technology
First Nations Life Before and After The Ice Age
Australia’s Deep Time History Revealed
Scientific Evidence of Massacre
Aboriginal Remains Repatriation
Aboriginal and TSI Human Remains Policy
Deep Time
In the case of First Nations Australian history, Deep Time refers to the long and ongoing history of Indigenous Australians, stretching over tens of thousands of years.
Deep Time History of Australia