Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Devils Lair

Location

Western Australia

Country

Australia

Year of Research

48,000 years BP

Culture

Since 1973, excavations have been focussed in the central area of the cave, Archaeological evidence for alternating human occupation extends down to layer 30 , with hearths, bone, and stone artifacts found to throughout.

Devil Lair is important as one of the earliest sites of the human occupation at Australia, A site with very early human ornaments and an rarely rich source of the information for the prehistoric cultural of natural history in the southwest of the Western Australia.

This makes it amongst the earliest sites in Australia and so an important source of information about the timing and character of the first human colonizers of Australia.

It is situated in the south-west of Western Australia, Devil’s Lair shows that people reached the extreme southwest of the continent very soon after their first arrival.

Devil Lair is important as one of the ancient sites of human occupation in Australia, a site with very early human ornaments and an unusually rich source of information for prehistoric cultural and natural history in the southwest of Western Australia.