Tag: Western Australia
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Rio Tinto destroys important 46,000 year old Indigenous site
The Juukan rock cave site in Western Australia’s Pilbara region was among the oldest in Australia and held material evidence of continuous human habitation stretching back 46,000 years. In a 2014 report, Archaeologist Dr Michael Slack identified at least one of the Juukan caves contained “a cultural sequence spanning over 40,000 years, with a high frequency…