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Australia's oldest underwater archaeology reveals ancient life within a lost landscape

New discoveries from Australia's oldest known underwater archaeological record reveal how First Peoples lived, transported goods and used different places within a vast cultural landscape that was submerged when rising seas transformed…

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New discoveries from Australia's oldest known underwater archaeological record reveal how First Peoples lived, transported goods and used different places within a vast cultural landscape that was submerged when rising seas transformed the continent after the last ice age. Published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews , new evidence shows that significant Aboriginal cultural heritage survives on Australia's seabed. It also shows that earlier discoveries at Murujuga, in northwestern Australia, were not isolated finds but part of a broader submerged cultural landscape across this World Heritage–listed region.

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