SkillBuilder
Use the SkillBuilder activities to develop these Historical concepts and skills: • HISTORICAL QUESTIONS • CHRONOLOGY
• USING HISTORICAL SOURCES • CONTINUITY AND CHANGE • CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES • HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE • COMMUNICATING
c. 23 000 People in Arnhem Land using ground edge grooved axes; earliest in the world
c. 12 000 Land bridge between Australian continent and Papua New Guinea flooded creating Torres Strait Islands
c. 10 000 World’s oldest boomerangs used in Wyrie Swamp (SA)
1788 First European colonists reach Sydney Cove
c. 31 000 Engravings carved in Olary region (SA)
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c. 30 800 Humans in Tasmania
c. 13 000 Australia’s oldest ornaments, bone beads, made in Devils Lair (WA)
c. 8000 Coastlines of Papua New Guinea
c. 2000 People fishing with hooks and lines
and Tasmania stabilised and separated from mainland
TOPIC2 Deep Time to modern era 19
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