Bones Beneath the Coolabah: What a Buried Cache of Stone Tools Reveals About Intelligence, Trade, and Survival in the Australian Outback

A Hidden Bundle Beside a Waterhole

In the blistering heat of western Queensland, where the landscape seems to hold more horizons than secrets, a handful of stones poking through the soil changed the story archaeologists thought they knew about life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The site sat near a quiet waterhole north of Boulia, a place tha…