18 October 2026
Archaeologists discover at least 9,000-year-old underwater sites in Australia with stone tools
Archaeologists have discovered two submerged sites off Murujuga in Western Australia, where stone tools offer clues to how Indigenous people used the landscape before rising sea levels covered it.
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