Ancient Australia
These are the traditional custodians of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands
What is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples?
This period of time is known as Before Common Era
What is BCE?
These two dating methods are commonly used by archaeologists to date ancient artifacts and fossils.
What are radio-carbon dating and thermoluminescence?
A mega-continent that connected Australia to Tasmania and Papua New Guinea
What is Sahul?
This is how we order events, one after the other
What is chronological
This dating method is used to date ceramics and minerals by measuring the light released when heating the material.
What is Thermoluminescence (TL)?
This is a term that relates to animal and plants that are native to a place
What is Flora and Fauna?
This period of time is known as Before Present
What is BP?
This is the symbol and number given for Radio-Carbon dating
What is C14?
This term refers to large animals, often from the Pleistocene epoch
What is mega-fauna?
This term describes the vast expanse of time covering Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, far beyond human existence
What is Deep Time?
This process measures the amount of carbon-14 remaining in a sample to estimate its age.
What is radio-carbon dating?
This massive marsupial, resembling a giant wombat, lived in ancient Australia and could grow up to the size of a small car.
What is Diprotodon?
This epoch, often called the "Ice Age," lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago and saw the rise and spread of early humans
What is the Pleistocene Epoch?
This process resets the "clock" in materials like pottery, allowing for accurate thermoluminescence dating.
What is heating?