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18 October 2026

Archaeologists discover at least 9,000-year-old underwater sites in Australia with stone tools

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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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