The highest human-occupied #Australian rock shelter from the Last Glacial Maximum, peak Ice Age 20,000 years ago.

'Archaeologists say the huge rock hollow was a camping spot “kind of like the Hyatt of the mountains”, occupied continuously until about 400 years ago.'
..
'The groundbreaking study, funded by the Australian Museum Foundation, was a collaboration between archaeologists and Aboriginal custodians who have spent six years mapping rock shelters across the greater Blue Mountains area, spanning 1m hectares of mostly untouched wilderness west of Sydney.

'Some sites are known only to a handful of Aboriginal people or intrepid bushwalkers. Others have only just been rediscovered.'

#Pleistocene #archaeology #songlines #Darug #Wiradjuri #Gomeroi

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/dargan-cave-shelter-ice-age-site

Santos plundering and polluting the planet for profit.
https://www.lockthegate.org.au/north_west_locals_prepare_to_picket_santos_pipeline_route

ALP - Anthracite Lignite Party
https://www.lockthegate.org.au/plibersek_approves_three_vast_thermal_coal_mine_expansions_damning_water_climate_and_koalas

#FirstNations #Gomeroi #Koalas
#lockthegate #narrabri #Muswellbrook #pilliga
#MachEnergy #Santos #whitehaven #YanCoal

https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/aunty-barb-mcgrady-photos/

#FirstNations #Gomeroi/Gamilaraay #Murri yinah (woman)
#Photography #BarbaraMcGrady

First nation Gomeroi people oppose Santos' Narrabri Gas project which will drill 850 wells through the Great Artesian Basin risking contamination of groundwater source for much of the Murray Darling Basin.

Meanwhile Santos is lead sponsor of South Australian Events and Union Cycliste International (UCI) Tour Down Under Cycling event in an incedible example of #Sportswashing

#GreatArtesianBasin #Santos #TourDownUnder #Gomeroi #FossilGas #ClimateCrisis #Groundwater

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-17/gomeroi-people-protest-santos-narrabri-gas-project-pilliga/101859328

“The environment and justice movements are increasingly under threat of legal sanctions and arrest for acts of nonviolent resistance to the extractive industries, especially logging and fossil fuels.” — David Shoebridge

NSW courts have recently delivered a hefty prison sentence for a lady who blocked a lane of traffic for less than 30 minutes to protest climate disruption, while giving the green light to yet another massive #FossilGas project involving the destruction of native forest (against the repeatedly expressed urgings of local #Gomeroi people and against the evidence of one of Australia's top climate scientists).

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/20/greens-push-for-federal-right-to-protest-law-after-nsw-jailing-of-deanna-violet-coco

#CriminalisationOfDissent #ClimateCrisis #Santos #ClimateCriminals