- Burarra fish-trapping skills are passed down to particular clan groups
- Wardaman story speaks of when the land was bare, before Buwarraja created everything
- Markers of skilled craftspeople left behind on Wakka Wakka Country scar trees
- Stone tools and weapons crafted and traded from Willandra Lakes
- Warlpiri and Alyawarr peoples pass down tool craftsmanship and trade for thousands of years
- Belts made from hair used in ceremony and trade
- Bogong moths a diet staple for the GunaiKurnai People
- Pearl shells traded across continent, more valuable than pearl itselfAround 4,500 years ago
- Ngaro People of Whitsundays use canoes to travel and trade between islands, hunt large marine animalsAround 7,000 years ago
- Nyoongar stories speak of time when people could walk out to place across water where spirits areAround 9,000 years ago
- Ngaiwang People use sophisticated methods to hunt birdsAround 10,000 years ago
- Knives and beads left behind in remote cave off coastAround 40,000 years ago
- Family group leave behind footprints around peak of ice ageAround 20,000 years ago
- Evidence suggests the first Australians may have been world’s earliest bakersAround 30,000 years ago
- Madjedbebe rock shelter provides earliest evidence of humans in AustraliaAround 65,000 years ago
- Grinding stones and stone tools
- Yorta Yorta at the cutting edge of stone tool technologyAround 12,000 years ago
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