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Hunting and gathering
Hunting and gathering
Environmental change
Environmental change
The earliest rock art
The earliest rock art
Events
15000 BC
Climate starts to become gradually wetter and warmer
12000 BC
Tasmania separated from Greater Australia by rising sea levels
10000 BC
Indigenous Australians forced inland as coastal sites flooded
10000 BC
Humanlike figures begin to be used in Australian rock art
8000 BC
Development of the boomerang along with other weapons such as barbed spears
6000 BC
Migration from South-east Asia gives rise to Austronesian culture
5000 BC
New Guinea separated from Greater Australia by rising sea levels
Australia

16,000-5000 BC Holocene

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