Warratyi

Warratyi is a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, representing the oldest known site of human habitation in inland Australia [1]. Discovered accidentally in 2011 by a local resident, the shelter contains thousands of artefacts and bone fragments dating between 49,000 and 10,000 years ago [1]. The excavations revealed Australia's earliest evidence of bone and stone-axe technology, ochre use, and interaction with megafauna such as Diprotodon [1].

TypeCave Structures
Period500 BC - 1 AD
CountryAustralia
Coordinates30.5919° S, 138.9593° E

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