Find from Victoria in Australia
- Finding: VIC501
Kategorie: 2
Name: Kookaburra (A joke, because it looks at least like a bird – must not, but could be a figurestone of a Kookaburra) - Location: Dunes near Flinders, Victoria, Australia (coordinates 38º26’53“S/145º02’20“E).
- Finder: Dr. Helmut Thissen
- Handover- date: 18.03.2025 by the deputy-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ruf-aus-der-Altsteinzeitstiftung, Mr. Karl-Heinz Thissen [1]
[1] The Finder is a Son of Mr. Karl-Heinz Thissen
Superimposed pictures of the find and the kookaburra
Source: bing.com/images
This flint sculpture weighs 383 gr. and measures 14.0×6.0x4.0 cm.
Sound of Kookaburra
Source Orange Free Sounds
Humans settled in Australia about 65,000 years ago. If one assumes that the stone was actually used by indigenous peoples, the location in the dunes would suggest that it was used as a tool e.g. to open shells. Many „middens“ here in the region remind us that the indigenous people took shells out of the sea for many thousands of years and opened them directly on the beach. The middens are shells of cockl-shells. The Aborigines [2] of Australia also fed themselves by eating mussels, throwing the shell remains on piles of mussels, the Middens, which piled up more and more.
[2] The Aborigines do not like this name and use names of their own depending to the region of Australia