Archaeologists in Warrnambool dig to verify possible fireplaces that could re-write Australian history

Jackson Graham
Updated October 22 2019 - 12:56pm, first published October 21 2019 - 4:25pm
DIGGING FOR HISTORY: Monash University's Indigenous archaeology professor Ian McNiven and research fellow Joe Crouch have dug up two possible fireplaces on cliff faces near the mouth of Warrnambool's Hopkins River. Picture: Morgan Hancock
DIGGING FOR HISTORY: Monash University's Indigenous archaeology professor Ian McNiven and research fellow Joe Crouch have dug up two possible fireplaces on cliff faces near the mouth of Warrnambool's Hopkins River. Picture: Morgan Hancock

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are meticulously searching Warrnambool's coastline for evidence of Aboriginal culture that could link shells to proof of Australia's earliest known human occupation.

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Jackson Graham

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