Ice Age Shelter High in Australia’s Blue Mountains Reveals 20,000 Years of Aboriginal Heritage

Ice Age Shelter High in Australia’s Blue Mountains Reveals 20,000 Years of Aboriginal Heritage

Dargan Shelter—location, elevation and plan of excavation. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). High in the rugged ridges of the Blue Mountains, archaeologists have uncovered remarkable evidence that Aboriginal people not only traversed but lived in this icy high-altitude country during the last Ice Age — more than 20,000 years ago.Perched at 1,073 meters above sea level, Dargan Shelter is a dramatic rock alcove that once overlooked treeless, …

Inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in Australia

'Mind-blowing': inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in Australia. The Dargan cave, in the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains, was previously believed too hostile for human habitation.