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Names

Name PrimarySeton Rockshelter Assemblage

Name AlternateSeton

IDs

ID LocalSAMA 37

ID UriOffline Only

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionSeton 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.

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

Subjects

aptAboriginal artefacts; Aboriginal culture; Aboriginal peoples (Australians); Charcoal; Stone tools; Tools

scotAboriginal peoples; Artefacts; Excavations (Archaeology); Tools

localAnimal bones; Archaeological excavation; Bone tools; Charcoal; Excavation Assemblage; Rockshelter; Stone tools

pontBone tools; Stone tools

person_orgRon Lampert

Coverage Spatial

TextKangaroo Island

Coverage Temporal

From1980

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Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-18 23:16