Archaeological excavation of rock shelter No. 6 Fromm's Landing, South Australia

Although the cultural material recovered during this excavation was meagre, it supplements and supports conclusions reached in the report on Shelter 2. A variety of other important evidence was recovered and ia discussed. Geomorphological features are outlined, particularly relating to the question of the causes of rock shelter formation. C14 dates 1000 ± 91 B.C. (NPL 28) and 1220 ± 94 B.C. (NPL 29) establish the antiquity of a Murray R. flood, which is the highest on record. The age of an almost complete dingo skeleton is intermediate between these dates, and is discussed in Appendix 2. All organic remains were identified, and the mammalian fauna was compared in detail with that recovered from Shelter 2, 400 yds away. In the course of this study, a thylacine tooth was identified from Shelter 2.
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