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Aboriginal
people and
post-glacial
climatic change
in the inland
Pilbara
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Rock shelter excavations
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Distribution
of
excavated
rock
shelters
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
calBP
Holocene calibrated radiocarbon dates 500 year moving average
Inland Pilbara Chichester Range
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Before 4000 calBP
4000-2000 calBP
2000-1000 calBP
1000-0 calBP
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Before 4000
Wetter
4000-2000
Drier
2000-1000
Wetter from ~1200
1000-present
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• Fortescue Metals Group
• Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation
• Fiona Hook, and Archae-aus staff
• Alexandra Rouillard, School of Plant
Biology, University of Western Australia
Acknowledgements
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