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Childrens book; brief notes on antiquity generally, archaeology, excavating techniques, stratigraphy (Fromms Landing & Kenniff Cave as examples), carbon dating (dates for Kenniff Cave, Koonalda, Darling River sites); origin of Aborigines, prehistoric animal species and their extinction, introduction of dingo & its non existence in Tasmania, camp sites & middens; changes in stone tools & their uses (explains terminology & methods of manufacture), weapons, rock art (Koonalda & Mount Cameron West), sacred value of rock art, Aboriginal concept of attachment to land, food getting; includes questions for discussion, research projects.