Archaeological Sites in Australia
Cave Structures in Australia (15)
Aboriginal Sites of New South Wales
The Aboriginal Sites of New South Wales encompass rock shelters containing cultural deposits in the Sydney Basin, which is one of Australia's richest provinces for Aboriginal…
Bidjigal Reserve
A 186-hectare reserve in western Sydney, New South Wales, commemorating the Bidjigal Aboriginal people. The reserve contains rock shelters including one with a midden dated to…
Bone Cave, Tasmania
Bone Cave is a small vertical limestone cave in the Upper Weld Valley of Tasmania with evidence of sporadic human occupation spanning 35,000 to 10,000 years ago. The most…
Cloggs Cave
Cloggs Cave is a limestone cave near Buchan, Victoria, on GunaiKurnai Country along the Snowy River gorge. Rediscovered in 1971 and first excavated by 1972, joint research by the…
Devil's Lair
Devil's Lair is a single-chamber cave of about 200 m² formed in Quaternary dune limestone on the Leeuwin‑Naturaliste Ridge, 5 km from the modern Western Australian coast. The…
Gabarnmung Cave
Gabarnmung is an archaeological and rock art site in southwestern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Excavations revealed habitation dating back at least 44,000 years,…
Koonalda Cave
Koonalda Cave is an Aboriginal archaeological site on the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, notable for containing the world's most impressive display of Pleistocene-era finger…
Koongine Cave
Koongine Cave is an archaeological site in the Limestone Coast of South Australia, situated in a low limestone ridge about 4 km from the coastline. The cave was occupied for…
Kutikina Cave
Kutikina Cave is a Pleistocene rock shelter on the Franklin River in Tasmania's South West Wilderness World Heritage Area. Excavated in 1981, it yielded over 250,000 bone…
Madjedbebe
Madjedbebe is a sandstone rock shelter in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, representing possibly the oldest site of human habitation in Australia. Located approximately…
Mudgegonga Rock Shelter
The Mudgegonga Rock Shelter is a large rock overhang in northeastern Victoria containing over 400 Aboriginal wall paintings and stencils, representing one of the richest rock art…
New Guinea II Cave
New Guinea II is a limestone cave and rockshelter on the Snowy River at the end of New Guinea Track, near Buchan, Victoria. The cave was within the traditional country of the…
Ngarrabullgan
Ngarrabullgan is a large tabletop mountain in north Queensland, sacred to the Djungan Aboriginal people as a Dreaming place. Ngarrabullgan Cave is one of Queensland's two oldest…
Tarragal Caves
The Tarragal Caves are a network of limestone caves and rock shelters overlooking the Bridgewater Lakes near Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia. Excavations in the late 1970s…
Warratyi
Warratyi is a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, representing the oldest known site of human habitation in inland Australia. Discovered accidentally in 2011 by…
City/town/settlement in Australia (4)
Box Gully Archaeological Site
Box Gully is an Aboriginal archaeological site on the shore of saline Lake Tyrrell in the Mallee region of northern Victoria, Australia. The site contains remains of a small…
Karta
8,000–4,500 BC: Karta, on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, contains the Kartan industry, one of Australia's earliest known large-stone-tool production sites. Archaeologists have…
Keilor Archaeological Site
The Keilor archaeological site was among the first places to demonstrate the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation of Australia when a cranium, unearthed in 1940, was found to be…
Kow Swamp Archaeological Site
Kow Swamp Archaeological Site contains a series of late Pleistocene burials within the lunette of the eastern rim of a former lake in north-central Victoria, Australia. Located 10…
Rock art in Australia (4)
Balls Head Reserve
Forested headland reserve in Waverton, Sydney, on Port Jackson, 1.5 km west of the Harbour Bridge. Traditional land of the Cammeraygal people, the reserve preserves Aboriginal…
Murujuga
Murujuga, also known as the Burrup Peninsula, is located in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia's Pilbara region and contains the world's largest and most significant…
Quinkan Rock Art
Quinkan Rock Art is a significant body of Aboriginal rock art found among sandstone escarpments near Laura, Queensland. The art features unique representations of "Quinkans"…
Sydney Rock Engravings
Sydney Rock Engravings are Aboriginal rock art sites carved into Sydney sandstone in the Sydney region of New South Wales, Australia. These carefully drawn images depict people,…
Geological interest in Australia (3)
Cuddie Springs
Cuddie Springs is a significant archaeological and paleontological site near Brewarrina in central northern New South Wales, Australia, occupying a shallow basin that formed an…
Green Gully Archaeological Site
An Aboriginal archaeological site in Keilor, Victoria, discovered during soil quarrying in the 1960s in the alluvial terraces of the Maribyrnong Valley. In 1968, an Aboriginal…
Lake Mungo
Lake Mungo is a dry lake in New South Wales, Australia, approximately 760 km west of Sydney and 90 km northeast of Mildura. It is the central feature of Mungo National Park and…
Stone circle in Australia (2)
Carisbrook Stone Arrangement
The Carisbrook Stone Arrangement is a well-preserved Aboriginal ceremonial site on the banks of Tullaroop Creek, about 5 km southeast of Carisbrook in Victoria, Australia.…
Wurdi Youang Stone Arrangement
Wurdi Youang is an Aboriginal stone arrangement at Mount Rothwell, Victoria, Australia. The site was acquired by the Indigenous Land Corporation on 14 January 2000 and transferred…
Megalithic stones in Australia (1)
Mine/quarry in Australia (1)
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