The first physical evidence that Tasmanian Devils once lived in the Pilbara is among the ‘mind-blowing’ finds made by in what is left of a rock shelter blasted by Rio Tinto in 2020.
The first physical evidence that Tasmanian Devils once lived in the Pilbara is among the discoveries made by archaeologists investigating what is left of a rock shelter blasted by Rio Tinto in 2020.
The tooth is the first physical evidence that Tasmanian Devils once lived in the Pilbara. The marsupial carnivores lived in the south-west of WA up to about 3000 years ago.Loading Slack said the shell was proof the area’s early inhabitants traded with or visited people on the coast hundreds of kilometres away.
When the rock shelters were excavated between 2008 and 2014 archaeologists found 5000-year old braided hair, a kangaroo bone sharpened to a point and DNA that was linked to Aboriginal people living in the Pilbara.Scarp Archaeology and PKKP Aboriginal Corporation
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