List of Occupation Sites in Australia - Chronological - Earliest date for sites, some estimated.

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List of Occupation Sites in Australia - Chronological - Earliest date for sites, some estimated

61,000 Malakunanja II, Arnhem Land, NT
60,000 Nauwalabila 1, Arnhem Land, NT
40,000 Carpenter's Gap Rock Shelter 1, the Kimberley, WA
40,000 Beginner's Luck Cave, Tasmania
40,000 Lake Mungo 3, western NSW
38,000 Nurrabullgin Cave, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
35,000 Warreen Cave, southwest Tasmania
35,000 Nawarla Gabarnmang Rock Shelter, Arnhem Land, NT
34,000 Parmerpar Meethaner Cave, Tasmania
33,000 Cuddie Springs, near Carinda, New South Wales.
33,000 Devil's Lair Far southwest of Western Australia
32,000 Puritjarra Rock Shelter, near Cleland Hills, Western Desert, NT.
32,000 Sandy Creek Shelter I, Cape York Peninsula 1
30,000 Colless Creek Rock Shelter, Barkly Tableland, northwest Queenslans.
30,000 Acheron Cave - Palewardia Walana Lanala Tasmania
30,000 Nunamira Cave (Bluff Cave), southwestern Tasmania See
30,000 Pallawa Trounta, southwest Tasmania
30,000 Bone Cave, southwestern Tasmania
30,000 Rock Shelter ORS 7
29,000 Riwi Cave, the Kimberley, WA (Believed to be about 40,000 BP)
28,000 Widgingarry 1 & 2, the Kimberley, WA.
26,000 Fern Cave, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
24,000 Koonalda Cave, Nullarbor Plain, South Australia
23,500 Serpent's Glen Rockshelter, Western Desert
23,000 Malangangerr, East Alligator River, Kakadu National Park, NT
22,759 Cave Bay Cave, Tasmania.
22,000 Puritjarra Rock Shelter, near Cleland Hills, WA
22,000 Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, South Australia.
21,900 New Guinea 2 Cave, Snowy River Gorge
20,000 Mount Gambier Caves, South Australia (estimated more than 20,000)
20,000 Kutikina Cave, southwestern Tasmania
20,000 Willandra Footprints, New South Wales
19,800 Spring Creek Site, New South Wales.
19,000 Silver Dollar Site, Shark Bay, WA
18,500 Gum Tree Valley Top, WA
18,500 Roonka Flat, Murray River Valley, South Australia
18,000 Miriwun Shelter, east Kimberley, WA
18,000 Early Man Shelter, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
18,000 Walkunder Arch Cave, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
17,200 Maneena Langatick Tattania Emita site, Nelson River Valley, Tasmania
17,000 Kutikina Cave, southwestern Tasmania
17,000 Cloggs's Cave, Victoria
16,000 Kenniff Cave, Carnarvon National Park, Queensland
16,000 Seton Site - Limestone cave on Kangaroo Island
14,000 Bullawinne Site, Maxwell River Valley, Tasmania
12,000 Nanwoon Cave, Tasmania
12,000 Wargata Mina Cave, southwest Tasmania
10,000 Warragarra Shelter, Tasmania
7,000 Ingaladdi Rock Shelter, NT. (Probably from the Pleistocene).
7,000 Nawamoyn , NT.
7,000 Rocky Cape South Cave, Tasmania
5,500 Rocky Cape North Cave, Tasmania
3,000 Devon Down Rock Shelter, South Australia.
1,800 West Point Midden, Tasmania.
1,000 Wilgie Mia, weld Range, northern WA.

Hallett Cove , South Australia.
Karlie-ngoinpool Cave, Mt. Gambier Region , South Australia
Little Swanport Midden, Tasmania.
Wyrie Swamp, South Australia.

Pleistocene Dates

Northern Territory

Age Locality

Northern Territory

61000+9000/-13000 Malakunanja II

52000+7000/-11000 Malakunanja II

18040+/-300 Malakunanja II

60300+/- 6700 Nauwalabila I

58300+/- 5800 Nauwalabila I

53400 +/- 5400 Nauwalabila I

40,000 Carpenter's Gap Rockshelter

30,000 Koolan Shelter 2

30000 +/- 2400 Nauwalabila I

20,000 Mandu Mandu Creek Rock-Shelter

19975 +/-265 Nauwalabila I

18,500 Gum Tree Valley Top

18,000 The Miriwun Rock Shelter

13500 +/- 900 Nauwalabila I

2900 +/- 600 Nauwalabila I

32000 +7000/-9000 Malangangerr

22900 +/- 1000 Malangangerr

22700 +/- 700 Malangangerr

19600 +/- 550 Malangangerr

21450 +/- 380 Nawamoyn

21950 +/- 270 Puritjarra

New South Wales & ACT

Sources & Further reading

Flood, Josephine, 2004, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, JB Publications.
Phillip J. Habgood & Natilie R. Franklin, The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 55, 2008

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