Ancient Australia Migrating

By Varth
  • 65,000 BCE

    Migration

    Found signs of human settlement in north Australia
  • 60,000 BCE

    Human remains

    Lake Mungo human remains date from this period
  • 48,000 BCE

    Found Story

    First evidence of ‘The Rainbow Serpent’ creation story
  • 45,000 BCE

    Found markings

    Earliest rock engravings, South Australia
  • 40,000 BCE

    More Evidence of Settlement

    Evidence of settlement at Lake Mungo
  • 31,000 BCE

    Evidence of more Settlement

    Evidence of settlement west of Melbourne (present-day Keilor)
  • 28,000 BCE

    Tools were found

    Axeheads, tools and other artifacts found at Tower Hill site at Warnambool from this period
  • 14,000 BCE

    Ice melts

    Ice caps begin to melt, and sea levels rise.
  • 6000 BCE

    Sea level stabilizes

    Sea level stabilizes at the present level; the area between Northern Australia and New Guinea is flooded creating the Torres Strait Islands
  • 4000 BCE

    Flood

    Flooding of Port Phillip Bay, originally Kulin nation land