Aboriginal people in Australia had pottery-making skills and sailed to distant islands long before Europeans arrived. This discovery challenges the previous belief that pottery was unknown in Australia. The pottery found on Jiigurru, located 600km south of Torres Strait, was made locally over 1,800 years ago. This finding raises significant questions about the history and cultural connections of Indigenous Australians.
Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrivedPottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient Indigenous pottery in Australia has long puzzled researchers., associated with the activities of Makassan people from Sulawesi .
Radiocarbon dating showed people started camping at this place some 4,000 years ago, making it the oldest site then known at Jiigurru. But no pottery was found.By 2016 the team had reached a dead end in investigating the few pieces of pottery we had. Instead, working in partnership with Traditional Owners, we turned the research program to the extraordinary Indigenous history of the whole of Jiigurru and began surveying all the islands.
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and shells found close to the pottery shows that it is between 2,950 and 1,815 years old, making it the earliest securely dated pottery ever found in Australia. Analysis of the clays and tempers shows that all of the pottery was likely made on Jiigurru.The findings are clear evidence that Aboriginal people made and used pottery thousands of years ago.
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