Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived

By Sean Ulm, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
Ian J. McNiven, Professor of Indigenous Archaeology; Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity & Heritage, Monash University
Kenneth McLean, Director, Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge

Pottery made more than 1800 years ago by Aboriginal communities on Jiigurru in the Lizard Island group in the Great Barrier Reef is the oldest ever found in Australia.

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