Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived
- Written by: Sean Ulm, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
Blue Lagoon at Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group) where the first pieces of pottery were found.Sean UlmPottery 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...
