Breathtaking isles and incredibly diverse marine life have drawn holidaymakers and avid divers to Western Australia's Dampier Archipelago for generations, but now a team of researchers have uncovered an even rarer find. 9News
"It was an area that had rich archaeology on the islands, so why wouldn't it have them underwater?" he explained.
The National Heritage Listed archipelago and Burrup Peninsula contain some of the richest concentrations of Aboriginal rock art and stone arrangements in the country. Analysis of radiocarbon dating and sea-level changes have dated the tools to at least 7000 years old. Despite the huge find, the archaeologist maintains this is just the beginning for underwater archaeology in Australia.
He pointed to the Sydney coastline as one location which held promise for potential underwater archaeological finds."Underwater archaeology is just part of archaeology now and that's what we want to see going forward… it integrated into the broader discipline."
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