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Landmark Oceania archaeological

Koonalda Cave

24,000 years ago

Deep Nullarbor limestone cave in South Australia preserving Pleistocene finger-flutings and flint mining by Ice Age Aboriginal peoples.

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24,000 years ago — older than the timeline's axis, which begins at 9000 BCE. Drawn to the same scale as the rest of the canvas, everything since would be a single pixel, so Koonalda Cave sits on the deep-time shelf instead.

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Aboriginal tribes (3000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (2000 BCE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mirning (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. South Australia (UK) (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Australia (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate