Ancient Australia

By ockiebear1
  • 63,000 BCE

    Aboriginals arrive in australia

  • 61,000 BCE

    Axe grinding tools being used in the NT

  • 47,000 BCE

    Aboriginals Hunting Megafauna

  • 45,000 BCE

    Bone tools being used in SA

  • 41,000 BCE

    Mungo man death - becomes earliest evidence of humans in Australia

  • 41,000 BCE

    Rock engraving in SA

  • 38,000 BCE

    Tasmania Occupied

  • 28,000 BCE

    Whole continent occupied

  • 26,000 BCE

    Oldest rock art created

  • 10,000 BCE

    Tasmania Separated from Australia, isolating Tasmanian tribes from the mainland

  • 8000 BCE

    Papua New Guinea tribes isolated from mainland

  • 4000 BCE

    Dingo introduced in Australia

  • 3000 BCE

    Backed blade tools being used in SA

  • Captain cook arrives