Australian Scientists Discover Ancient Underwater Aboriginal Sites

A general view of the area where researchers from Flinders University, University of Western Australia and James Cook University discovered underwater artefacts dated back thousands of years when the sea bed was dry land, in Australia, 2019. Deep History of Sea Country Project & Flinders University, Maritime Archaeology Program/Handout via Reuters

SYDNEY—Australia’s first underwater archaeological sites off its west coast dating to more than 7,000 years ago will help with the understanding of the cultural and technology development of its first peoples, scientists said Thursday.

Archaeologists in Western Australia discovered hundreds of stone tools made by aboriginal people when the seabed was dry, at two ancient sites now submerged in the Dampier Archipelago.