At the time of European colonization, the initiation rites of circumcision (pink) and subincision/introcision (blue) were spreading outwards from the central desert

One of my favorite websites. It's easy to forget how drastically the Australia coast has changed. New Guinea and Australia were connected just 8,000 years ago!
web.archive.org/web/20210224...

Pleistocene prints: a massive, 6-fingered hand and a child's foot

From the Kimberley region, northwest Australia. Likely over 17,000 years old

(It's possible the handprint was made from two overlapping prints)

Hercules moths weren't eaten in Australia but Bogong moths were. People valued them for their high fat content: cooking them in fire or grinding them into cakes