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More than 10 years in the making, the Munjip Trail (just 4 hours south of Sydney) celebrates stunning coastal views and ...
Medlow Dam in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia [Photo: WaterNSW]. The un-named resident said that she decided to pay the large testing fee (around $500 each) after a Sydney Morning ...
Found in an ancient Blue Mountains cave known as Dargan Shelter, ... Dargan Shelter at 1,073 m elevation is believed to be the oldest occupied high-altitude landscape in Australia.
Excavations at Dargan Shelter in the Blue Mountains provide the earliest evidence of high-altitude human occupation in Australia, dating back 22,000–19,000 years.
The Blue Mountains, home to some of the oldest known rock shelters in Australia, have been inhabited for over 30,000 years but this is the highest cave found showing past human activity.
Our excavation results provide the earliest known evidence of high-altitude occupation in Australia, establishing the Blue Mountains as Australia’s most archaeologically significant periglacial ...
Dating back 20,000 years, when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and seasonally frozen over, Dargan Shelter at 1,073 m elevation is believed to be the oldest occupied high ...