Puritjarra Cave Essay

With the excavation almost dead center of Australia Puritjarra Cave Rock Shelter thus finding out that the site had already been occupied 22 000 years ago. The Shelter had a floor space of 400 m². Shortly after it was shown to go back to around 32,000BP. Puritjarra Cave Rock Shelter was still used up to the 1930s when people went onto missionary stations in the western MacDonnell Ranges. I checked multiple sources to confirm that Michael Smith in 1987 had the first proof that 22 000 years ago it was occupied last. It also confirms the floor space of the cave, being 400m² and that pretty much dead center of Australia.

After the excavation on the Monte Bello Islands, currently just over 100KM of the Pilbara Coast, evidence of Pleistocene occupation was found. On Campbell Island 3 limestone caves have been excavated. 1 marine shell cultural material at the base of the deposit in Noala Cave gave an age of about 27,220 BP. The deposits showed that the occupants were hunting Kangaroos as well as other mammals in

Red ochre covered the remains. The Manfred Ranges were the closest known source of ochre, 100-200 km northwest of the burial and suggesting that long distance exchange or transport was used to acquire this ochre. On the 26ᵗʰ of February 1974 a old, eroding gravesite was found in the shifting sands of a lunette around Lake Mungo in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage area. Named Lake Mungo 3, the human skeleton had its fingers interlocked over its groin area. Red ochre had been coated on the bones at the time of the burial, this was thought to be the earliest use ochre for this purpose.Found at Lake Mungo, the skeletal remains found about 20 years ago have been dated using uranium series, electron spin resonance and optically stimulated luminescence proved a new, older age of 62,000 years give or take 6,000 years over the previous dating of 30,000-50,000 years