AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PREHISTORIC SITES

Key:

★ BGS = Below Ground Surface

★ C12 = Radiocarbon date

★ char. = charcoal

★ OSL = Optical Stimulated Thermoluminescence

★ ''AA'' = Australian Archaeology
'- Location Data -'

Locality	Lab No.	Age Yrs BP	Type of Date	Type of Site
'Northern Territory
Malakunanja II (Roberts et al. ''Nature'' 1990	KTL 162	61,000 +9,000/-13,000	OSL	Lowest artefact at 260cm BGS
Malakunanja II	KTL 158	52,000 +7,000/-11,000	OSL	Artefacts at 250 cm BGS
Malakunanja II	KTL 164	45,000 +6,000/-9,000	OSL	Artefacts at 230 cm BGS
Malakunanja II	SUA 256	18,040 +-300	C14 char.	Associated with ochre and grindstone
Nawalabila I (Roberts et al. ''AA'' 1993)	Ox-od K169	60,300 +-6700	OSL	Artefacts at 285-302 cm BGS
Nawalabila I	Ox-od K170	58,300 +-5800	OSL	Base of rubble auger hole
Nawalabila I	Ox-od K168	53,400 +-5400	OSL	Artefacts at 228-240 cm BGS
Nawalabila I	Ox-od K166	30,000 +-2400	OSL	Artefacts at 170-175 cm BGS
Nawalabila I	SUA 237	19,975 +-264	C14 char.	Lowest C14 date
Nawalabila I	Ox-od K172	13,500 +-900	OSL	Artefacts at 104-110 cm BGS
Nawalabila I	Ox-od K171	2,900 +-600	OSL	Artefacts at 1-6 cm BGS
Malanganger (Roberts et al ''Nature'' 1990)	KTL 126	32,000 +-7,000	OSL	Lowest artefacts at 200 BGS
Malangangerr (C.White 1967, 1971)	ANU 77B GaK 629 GaK 628	22,900 +-1000 22,700 +-700 19,600 +-550	C14 char.	earliest ground edge axes
Nawamoyn (C.White 1967,1971)	ANU 51	21,450 +-380	C14 char.	Ground edge axes
Puritjarra (M.A.Smith ''Nature'' 1987)	Beta 19901	21,950 +-270	C14 char.	Artefacts below this estimated to be 30,000 BP
'Western Australia'
Rottnest Island (Charles Dortch, ''West Aust'' 23 June 2003)	ANU & James Cook Uni	70,000 +10,000/-20,000	U/Th C14	flint tool embedded in Tamala limestone (Aminozone C)
Upper Swan Bridge (Pearce and Barbetti ''AO'' 1981)	SUA 1500 SUA 1665	39,500 +2,300/-1,800 37,100 +1,600/-1,300	C14 char.	Campsite Occupatn 88-96 cm BGS Occupatn 75-80 cm BGS
Mandu Mandu Creek RS (Morse ''AO'' 1988; ''Antiquity'' 1993; Bowdler 1992)	Wk 1513 Wk 1576 SUA 3454	34,299 +-1050 30,000 +-850 25,200 +-250	C14 baler shell C14 nodule	Shell necklace Early occup
Devils Lair (Dortch 1984)	SUA 585/6	32,800 +-830	C14 char.	Pooled age