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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Archaeology

Subject
Archaeological evidence of Aboriginal life in Sydney
First people of the Cooks River
Hyde Park Barracks archaeology
McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin
The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River
Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project
Excavation of Sheas Creek 1896
Irish, Paul
McCarthy, Frederick
Lapstone Creek rock shelter
The Rocks Dig site
A nulla nulla or wooden club from the Dyarubbin region
Aboriginal archaeological sites recorded in the Sydney region up to 2001
Aboriginal painting on rock / cliffs, off the road, about 500 yards before the Bridge is reached over Manly Lagoon, towards Deewhy 28 September 1895
Artefact Heritage Services
Balmoral Beach shell midden
Bora Rock: aboriginal markings near Manly Water-works Gully 13 September 1891
Cast of full skeleton of Paracyclotosaurus davidi at the Natural History Museum 2011
Charcoal European ship in rock-shelter in Lane Cove River Valley
Clay pipes hidden beneath the floor of the Destitute Asylum, 2010
Cobble chopper found at Castlereagh by Eugene Stockton in 1974, later dated at 50,000 years old
Cross section and longitudinal section of Shea's Creek Canal shewing position of submerged forest, remains of dugong, stone tomahawks etc 1896
Darug women Erin Wilkins and Leanne Watson examine one of the wooden guni, yam sticks, held in the collection of Hawkesbury Regional Museum at Windsor
Detail shewing position of stone tomahawks in longitudinal section of Shea's Creek Canal 1896
Engraved kangaroos or wallabies at Shaws Creek, Nepean River
Engraved whale at Balls Head, Port Jackson
Excavation of dugong remains at Sheas Creek 1896
Grinding grooves beside a rock pool on sandstone rock-platform, Gosford area
Ground-edged hatchet with wooden wrap-around handle
Ground-edged implements
Lower jaw of Dugong, discovered at Shea's Creek, Sydney, showing Cuts made by Aborigines with Stone Tomahawks 1896
Makeshift tatting shuttle found during archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks
Number of Aboriginal archaeological sites established in each millennium (cal BP) (based on earliest dates in stratified sites)
Number of radiometric ages in each millennium (cal BP) in Sydney region Aboriginal archaeological sites (N=164 ages from 164 sites)
Painted shield attributed to coastal Sydney region, 92cm long
Ribs of Dugong, discovered at Shea's Creek, showing Cuts made by Aborigines with Stone Tomahawks 1896
Rock carving on Darug country of an echidna 2006
Screenshot of website 'Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales' 2021
Shea's Creek Canal, sketch plan shewing position of submerged forest, remains of dugong, stone tomahawks &c 1896
Shell fish-hooks made from 'Turbo turquata'
Shell scraper which originally may have been hafted onto the end of spear-thrower
Skeleton of the Dugong found at Shea's Creek 1896
Skull of Dugong, discovered at Shea's Creek, Sydney 1896
Soft leather boot found during archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks
Stone artefacts exposed on the ground surface of an archaeological site in the western Cumberland Plain
Stone points and backed blades from Dyarubbin, photographed 2021
Surface of shell midden at Berowra Waters
Two backed artefacts from the north Hawkesbury district
White hand stencils in a rock shelter in the Macdonald Valley May 2019
White pigment hand stencil in rock-shelter in Middle Harbour