First Nations People food timeline

By keeran
  • Period: 68,000 BCE to 68,000 BCE

    68,000 BP First Nations Arrived in Australia

  • Period: 36,000 BCE to 36,000 BCE

    Creation of oldest Bread

    People in Cuddie Springs were grinding grass seeds to make a sort of bread
  • Period: 36,000 BCE to 36,000 BCE

    36,000BP Evidence of butchering megafauna

    People were consuming megafauna, which were large mammals in a particular region.
  • Period: 34,000 BCE to 34,000 BCE

    34,000 BP Evidence of marine foods

    People started to consume fish and shellfish near the North West Cape.
  • Period: 30,700 BCE to 30,700 BCE

    30,700 BP Underground ovens

    At Lake Mungo National Park in New South Wales, there is evidence of fireplaces and underground ovens. To cook food in these ovens, Aborigines heated stones and put them in a pit, putting the food on top and filling the pit in.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3500 BCE

    3500 BP Less fish, more meat

    It’s not known why, but around 3500 years ago Tasmanians began to eat less scale fish and more land animals.
  • Period: 2145 BCE to 2145 BCE

    2145 BP Banana cultivation in the Islands

    Archaeologists from the Australian National University have found evidence of banana cultivation on the island of Mabuyag in the western Torres Strait.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    2000 BP Hunting from canoes

    About 2000 years ago, the Tasmanian Aborigines began to use canoes to travel to the Bass Strait islands to harvest mutton birds (shearwaters) and seals. Hunting took place during summer and autumn.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1200 BCE

    1200 BP Agriculture in the Islands

    Archaeological finds at Saibai in the northern Torres Strait Islands suggest the development of agricultural mound and ditch systems in this area dates to some time after 1200 BP.
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    1606 First European Contact

    Europeans first came in contact with Australia and its inhabitants.