Deep time history

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  • Period: 50,000 BCE to 25,000 BCE

    50,000-25,000 BP - Earliest archaeological evidence

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  • Period: 50,000 BCE to

    50,000-25,000 BP- Evidence of Megafauna living in Australia

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  • Period: 40,000 BCE to 40,000 BCE

    40,000 BP – Mungo Man and Mungo Lady lived in Willandra Lakes region.

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  • Period: 20,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    20, 000 BP – Peak Ice Age and First Nations peoples surviving in places like Kutikina Caves in Tasmania

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  • Period: 11,000 BCE to 11,000 BCE

    11,000 BP – Large areas of land become inundated with the melting of ice sheets - Papua New Guinea and Tasmania are separated from Australia.

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  • Period: 8000 BCE to 7999 BCE

    8000 BCE – Settled climate begins to arise in Australia that is like the present day.

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  • Period: 7500 BCE to 7500 BCE

    7500 BCE – Sea levels rise by 100 metres inundating large plains in the Northern Territory. This has large impact on the preservation of oral histories for First Nations peoples.

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  • Period: 7000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    7000 BCE – Evidence of stone houses in Western Australia.

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  • Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    3000 BCE – Evidence of the arrival of the dingo and the extinction of the Tasmania Tiger on the Australian mainland.

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  • Period: 1500 to 1500

    1500 CE – Indonesian peoples (Makassan) trade with First Nations people. Many more people begin to explore Australia (Dutch Explorer’s from Dutch East India Company).

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    1770 CE – James Cook arrives off the coast of Australia. Claims East Coast for the British Empire.

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    1788 CE – Invasion and colonisation of Australia by British Empire.

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