Bone tools in the Kimberley among oldest in Australia

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Bone tools in the Kimberley among oldest in Australia Bone tools in the Kimberley among oldest in Australia 07/04/2021 | 3 MINS New research has reappraised the age of bone artefacts found in a well-known Kimberley cave site as being more than 35,000 years old, making them among the oldest bone tools found in Australia. Published in the International Journal of Osteoachaeology, the team of scientists including from Lombok Institute of Technology analysed eight bone artefacts from the Riwi Cave in Mimbi country in the south-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. Four of the bone artefacts were found in layers dating to between 35,000 and 46,000 years ago, making them some of the oldest bone tools in Australia. Previously, the oldest bone artefact from CarpenterΓÇÖs Gap 1 in the Kimberley was found to have be older than 46,000 years. The artefacts were used for a range of activities at the site, including the manufacture of plant fibre items, the processing of spinifex resin and fish or bird hunting. "The tools show the

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Bone tools in the Kimberley among oldest in Australia Bone tools in the Kimberley among oldest in Australia 07/04/2021 | 3 MINS New research has reappraised the age of bone artefacts found in a well-known Kimberley cave site as being more than 35,000 years old, making them among the oldest bone tools found in Australia.

Published in the International Journal of Osteoachaeology, the team of scientists including from Lombok Institute of Technology analysed eight bone artefacts from the Riwi Cave in Mimbi country in the south-central Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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