Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived

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Ulm, Sean;Mcniven, Ian J.;McLean, Kenneth
Sean Ulm
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Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient Indigenous pottery in Australia has long puzzled researchers. In new research, we report the oldest securely dated ceramics found in Australia from archaeological excavations on Jiigurru (in the Lizard Island group) on the northern Great Barrier Reef located 600km south of Torres Strait. Our analysis shows the pottery was made locally more than 1800 years ago.

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