Archaeological Sites in Australia
Cave Structures in Australia (12)
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.
Devil's Lair
Devil's Lair is a single-chamber cave with a floor area of around 200 square metres that formed in a Quaternary dune limestone of the Leeuwin–Naturaliste Ridge, 5 kilometres from…
Koonalda Cave
Koonalda Cave is a cave in the Australian state of South Australia, on the Nullarbor Plain. It is located within the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area, 99 kilometres west of…
Koongine Cave
Koongine Cave is located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The cave is situated in a limestone ridge approximately 4 km from the coastline. It was occupied approximately…
Kutikina Cave
Kutikina Cave is a rock shelter located on the Franklin River in the South West Wilderness, a World Heritage Area in the Australian state of Tasmania. Originally referred to as…
Madjedbebe
Madjedbebe (formerly known as Malakunanja II) is a sandstone rock shelter in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, possibly the oldest site of human habitation in…
Mudgegonga Rock Shelter
The Mudgegonga rock shelter is a large rock overhang which contains over 400 Aboriginal wall paintings and stencils and evidence of prehistoric Aboriginal occupation. The…
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…
Tarragal Caves
The Tarragal Caves are a network of large limestone caves and rockshelters which overlook the Bridgewater Lakes near the towns of Tarragal and Cape Bridgewater. The caves were…
Warratyi
Warratyi is the site of a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Located around 550 kilometres north of Adelaide and about 200 kilometres inland, it has been…
Archaeological site 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…
Carisbrook Stone Arrangement
The Carisbrook stone arrangement is a well-preserved Aboriginal stone arrangement in Victoria. The site consists of a double arc shape of boulders, a cairn of stones and other…
Cuddie Springs
Cuddie Springs is a notable archaeological and paleontological site in the semi-arid zone of central northern New South Wales, Australia, near Carinda in Walgett Shire. Cuddie…
Kow Swamp Archaeological Site
The Ghow Swamp Aboriginal Place, also known as the Kow Swamp archaeological site, is a protected Aboriginal place. The archaeological site contains the largest known single…
Rock art in Australia (4)
Balls Head Reserve
The Balls Head Reserve is a forested headland nature reserve situated on Balls Head in Sydney. The headland is in Port Jackson, 1.5 kilometres west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge,…
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,…
Quinkan Rock Art
Quinkan rock art refers to a large body of locally, nationally and internationally significant Aboriginal rock art in Australia of a style characterised by their unique…
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,…
Burial in Australia (1)
Geological interest in Australia (1)
Megalithic stones in Australia (1)
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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…
Karta
Karta is the Kaurna name Karta Pintingga, meaning Island of the Dead, for the island known as Kangaroo Island in the state of South Australia. Kangaroo Island was separated from…
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…
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