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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.