Aboriginal Sites of New South Wales

Aboriginal Sites of New South Wales
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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 archaeological sites, with at least 1,500 rock shelters containing cultural deposits discovered in Sydney's sandstone belt [1][2]. All these sites hold legal protection under state and federal law [3].

TypeCave Structures
Period< 4500 BC
CountryAustralia
Coordinates31.9998° S, 146.9999° E

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