Highest Occupied Ice Age Site Identified in Australia

Archaeology Magazine ^ | June 18, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Stone artifacts recovered from the Dargan Shelter

Dr. Amy Way

[SunkenCiv]

[Red Badger]

They had an Ice Age in Australia?..................

[Openurmind]

"They had an Ice Age in Australia?.................."

Yes but it was opposite from ours and spun the other way... lol

.. No but seriously... Antarctica got bigger too...

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap1-Pioneers-of-Plate-Tectonics/Alfred-Wegener/Glacial-Deposits-from-Permo-Carboniferous-Glaciation.html

[Openurmind]

No wait, my bad, wrong image... That is plate tectonics.

[rktman]

Oh, more proof that fossil fuels are bad and have been planning to destroy humans for centuries.

[logi_cal869]

I enjoy it when scientists have to explain the egg on their faces.

[IYAS9YAS]

Some guys will do anything for a bit of quiet and solitude.

[Openurmind]

I am sure they had local Glaciation in the mountains.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B978044453447700074X

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/09/ice-age-struck-indigenous-australians-hard/

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I understand finding ‘shards’ of things and pieces that look like arrowheads or tools for scraping and cutting - but how could one ever possibly ‘make’ those last two perfectly oval stones?

How would one find river/lake/ocean shore rocks worn smooth when it was the Ice Age? Was there ANY open water?

Or is this a Quiz? ‘One of these things is not like the others.’ ;)

[SunkenCiv]

Yup. When they were hungry they’d throw another shrimp on the barby.

[Red Badger]

They have BIG SHRIMP down under!................

[SunkenCiv]

Typically such items have the signs of having been bound onto a handle, signs of wear from having been used to hammer stuff open, and remnants of goo.

[Bobbyvotes]

Ice age killed 1000 times more mammals than any global warming periods. By burning fossil fuels if humans can reduce intensity of next ice age, it will save a Billion human lives.

[rktman]

Can we pick which ones?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So these were unused, spare hammer-heads, then?

Are you sure rock-skipping wasn’t a HUGE pastime back then? I mean, there was no Free Republic! ;)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

During the Ice Age, “Researchers believe that the average temperature would have been much colder than it is today”

Nothing gets past researchers.

All kidding aside, this is fascinating. Why wouldn’t those people have moved to lower elevations with more abundant food?

[Bobbyvotes]

Most dying during next ice age will be north of Atlanta and south of Rio de Janeiro.

[Bobbyvotes]

During last ice age Chicago was covered with 4 mile high glaciers. Then all that ice melted during next global warming and formed largest body of fresh water on earth, known as the Great lakes.

[Openurmind]