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Ancient Aboriginal technology unearthed in rare bone discovery on Ngarrindjeri country
A rare glimpse into ancient Aboriginal technology has been uncovered in the form of a bone artefact on Ngarrindjeri country, along the Lower Murray river system in South Australia.
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Found at Murrawong near Murray Bridge by Flinders University researchers, in collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri community, the bone is believed to have come from a macropod, an animal from the marsupial family.
Radiocarbon dated to be between 5,300 and 3,800 years old, the bone was detected in amongst a midden site that was excavated in 2008, but has only just been processed and recorded.
It has been labelled as a rare find because the last bone object uncovered in the Lower Murray River Gorge was in the 1970s.
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