Madjedbebe rock shelter

The shelter contains finds of the oldest known humans in Australia, 65,000 years old. Site contains the world’s oldest ground-edge axes and is adorned with some 1000 Aboriginal paintings.

Devil’s Lair

Cave – grotto with a 6.6 m thick layer of sediments. Archaeological research in the cave has provided valuable knowledge about the past of Australia. Human occupation in the cave started around 48,000 years ago.

Ngarrabullgan Cave

Excavations in Ngarrabullgan Cave in 1991

The oldest known human settlement in Queensland, over 37,000 years old. Cave floor has 27 layers of habitation.

Nourlangie Rock (Nawurlandja)

Nourlangie rock art, Australia

Impressive cliff with numerous ancient shelters. Some, such as Anbangbang and Nangawulurr contain impressive paintings of mythological nature.

Billimina

Impressive, giant cliff face that is covered with more than 2,500 cliff drawings. An interesting feature is drawings of many bars in horizontal rows – most likely this was counting. In the shelter at the cliff people lived over the last 22,000 years.

Daepyeong

A prehistoric settlement, inhabited in the time period between 3500 BC and 500 AD, one of the earliest permanent settlements in this region of Asia. This settlement has the oldest earthwork fortifications in East Asia (in the oldest layer) and was an early center of jewelry and pottery handicrafts.

Igeum-dong

Prehistoric settlement and necropolis with megaliths. Site was inhabited in 700 – 550 BC. Site includes 63 burials, including burials of high-ranked people and palisade. Interesting are remnants of two large raised-floor buildings.

Hueyatlaco archaeological site

Site of the finds of Hueyatlaco

Mysterious find – sophisticated man-made tools in 250,000 years old strata. This does not fit with the theory of the habitation of New World. This theory envisages that people here came much later.