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Seton Rockshelter Assemblage

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Seton Rockshelter on Kangaroo Island was excavated by archaeologist Ron Lampert in the 1980s. He revealed the oldest occupational layer found on Kangaroo Island. The site yielded stone tools (mostly small quartz implements), bone tools, animal bones and charcoal. Occupation was found to span from about 18,000 to 9,500 years ago. This site is one of only two rockshelters excavated on Kangaroo Island.

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'The Great Kartan Mystery' (1988) by Ron Lampert, Terra Australis Series, ANU Press, Canberra.

Data time period: 1980

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Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Animal bones | Artefacts | Excavation Assemblage | Excavations (Archaeology) | Ron Lampert | archaeological excavation | bone tools | charcoal | rockshelter | stone tools | tools |

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  • Local : SAMA 37
ACN 633 798 857