Nut Crackers
Macadamia crackers and hammer stones, with some traditional ground and flaked axes and more recent tools made on glass insulators, in the Aboriginal culture display at the Mareeba Heritage Museum.
The traditional owners of the region are the Kuku Dgungan people www.nailsma.org.au/djungan-country-settle-native-title-claim
Nearby Mount Mulligan / Ngarrabullgan, is the oldest known and dated cultural landscape in Queensland (40+K bp), and a place of state, national and international interest and scientific significance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngarrabullgan
Bruno David -
"Despite a higher bid by a Japanese firm (who had already made plans for a tourist resort on the mountain), an 11th hour deal between the recently formed Kuku Djungan Aboriginal Corporation and the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage secured the mountain and surrounding areas for the traditional owners... During our first archaeological field visit to the area, one of us (BD) was directed to Ngarrabullgan Cave by Kuku Djungan Elder, Mr John Grainer Snr (also Chairperson of both the Kuku Djungan Aboriginal Corporation and the North Queensland Aboriginal Land Council). The ensuing excavation soon revealed one of the oldest Aboriginal sites in Australia, with a conventional radiocarbon date of >37,170 BP (David 1993)."
Nut Crackers
Macadamia crackers and hammer stones, with some traditional ground and flaked axes and more recent tools made on glass insulators, in the Aboriginal culture display at the Mareeba Heritage Museum.
The traditional owners of the region are the Kuku Dgungan people www.nailsma.org.au/djungan-country-settle-native-title-claim
Nearby Mount Mulligan / Ngarrabullgan, is the oldest known and dated cultural landscape in Queensland (40+K bp), and a place of state, national and international interest and scientific significance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngarrabullgan
Bruno David -
"Despite a higher bid by a Japanese firm (who had already made plans for a tourist resort on the mountain), an 11th hour deal between the recently formed Kuku Djungan Aboriginal Corporation and the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage secured the mountain and surrounding areas for the traditional owners... During our first archaeological field visit to the area, one of us (BD) was directed to Ngarrabullgan Cave by Kuku Djungan Elder, Mr John Grainer Snr (also Chairperson of both the Kuku Djungan Aboriginal Corporation and the North Queensland Aboriginal Land Council). The ensuing excavation soon revealed one of the oldest Aboriginal sites in Australia, with a conventional radiocarbon date of >37,170 BP (David 1993)."