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Engraved kangaroos or wallabies at Shaws Creek,...

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Engraved kangaroos or wallabies at Shaws Creek, Nepean River

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Archaeological evidence of Aboriginal life in Sydney

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Nepean River

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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

Sandstone

Archaeology

Visual Arts

Nepean River

River that rises in the southern highlands of New South Wales and curls round greater Sydney, becoming the Hawkesbury River near Yarramundi. Several dams on the river and its tributaries help supply water for Sydney.

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