Great Barrier Reef discovery overturns belief Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery, archaeologists say
by Joe Hinchliffe from Environment | The Guardian on (#6KYZ3)
Paper dates 82 pottery pieces found in single dig site at between 3,000 and 2,000 years old
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Groundbreaking archaeological research may have upended the longstanding belief that Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery.
A paper published in the Quaternary Science Reviews on Wednesday details the finding of 82 pottery pieces from a single dig site on a Great Barrier Reef island, dates them at between 3,000 and 2,000 years old and determines that the pots were most likely made by Aboriginal people using locally sourced clay and temper.
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