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Balmoral Beach shell midden

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Val Attenbrow
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Archaeological evidence of Aboriginal life in Sydney
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Aboriginal Archaeology
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Balmoral Beach

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Attenbrow, Val

Val Attenbrow is an archaeologist and principal research scientist at the Australian Museum in Sydney.

Australian Museum

Archaeological evidence of Aboriginal life in Sydney

The lives, activities and material culture of the people who lived in the Sydney area for thousands of years before Europeans arrived are only revealed by archaeological evidence. Sydney has many diverse sites where physical evidence of the first inhabitants can be found, revealing much about their technologies, diets, cultures and occupations, and how these changed in the centuries before European settlement changed everything.

Aboriginal

Archaeology

Balmoral Beach

The harbour beach faces north east and is sheltered from ocean swell by Middle Head. The entire beach is listed on the Register of the National Estate as the 'Balmoral Beach Conservation Area'.

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