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Monday, June 18
June 18, 2012

Radiocarbon dating has been used to determine that charcoal drawings in the Northern Territory are the oldest in Australia. Bryce Barker of the University of Southern Queensland says that the rock art, which is located in the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter, is 28,000 years old. Archaeological evidence suggests that the rock shelter had been occupied for […]

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