Limestone shelter in cliffs beside the lower Murray River in South Australia. The two-metre deep deposit, rich in faunal material as well as stone and bone tools, was excavated by H. Hale and N.B. Tindale in 1929, as was the nearby open site of Tart-anga. This was the first systematic archaeological excavation in Australia. Later radiocarbon dating of samples from the excavation estimated human occupation of the shelter from 3000 bc.Interpretation of the stratigraphy and stone tool sequence at the two sites introduced concepts of antiquity and cultural change in Aboriginal prehistory which had previously been denied in Australian anthropology.
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