Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

3,000-Year-Old Pottery Reveals Trade Networks in Australia Long Before Colonization


Dozens of broken pieces of pottery dating between 2,000 and 3,000 years old have been unearthed on a windswept island on the Great Barrier Reef – the oldest pottery ever discovered in Australia.

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on Science Alert

Read more on:

Photo of trade networks

trade networks

Photo of Year

Year

Photo of colonization

colonization

Related news:

News photo

Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over 2000 years ago

News photo

120,000-Year-Old Stingray Sand ‘Sculpture’ Found in South Africa

News photo

Indigenous fire management in Australia traced back 11,000 years