Saturday, June 20, 2015

Indigenous midden - between about Pambula River / Severs' Beach to beyond Haycock, Ben Boyd National Park.

The Pambula River and Lake were a focus of activity by the local Aboriginal peoples. M. E. Sullivan's test excavations on shell mounds on the shores of Pambula Lake generated radio carbon dates indicating that the site had been in use for more than 3,000 years. The midden deposits contained shell (mainly mud oyster and mussel); fish bones; and the bones of kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and tree-dwelling marsupials; as well as flaked stone artefacts. Further information will be posted here as it is researched.

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