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A limestone shelter in cliffs beside the lower Murray River in South Australia with a deposit rich in faunal material as well as stone and bone tools and dating to c 4000 BC. It was the first systematic archaeological excavation in Australia (1929).
First developed as a sheep station in the early 1900’s, Devon Downs is steeped in South Australian pastoral history with the old Cobb & Co stone ruins situated at the clifftop being a distinct reminder of the pioneering Australians who first ventured into the region.
- Early Archaeology in South Australia
- Prehistoric Occupation
- Projects in South Australia
- The Archaeology of Riverine Peoples
- Archaeology in The Present
Although originating with scientists and untrained laymen, archaeology has a distinguished record in South Australia. The 1929 excavation at Devon Downs (Ngautngaut) on the River Murray north of Mannum was an Australian landmark in the recovery of the Aboriginal past. South Australian Museum officers Herbert Hale and Norman Tindale excavated throug...
Interest in prehistoric occupation predated this watershed. It chiefly involved retrieving stone tools from the ground surface, such as Walter Howchin’s work in the Adelaide region from the 1890s. Howchin later recognised the antiquity of several artefacts exposed on a buried land surface at Fulham, although subsequent investigations failed to veri...
Professor T. Draper Campbell of the Department of Dentistry at the University of Adelaide, an active participant in perhaps 15 of these northern expeditions, documented Aboriginal activities in a number of films that have archaeological relevance. Through the 1930s to 1960s he was an avid, though acerbic, collector and classifier of stone tools. Hi...
An extensive burial ground at Roonka, north of Blanchetown in the Murray Region, was excavated by Graeme Pretty from 1968. The graves span several millennia, but it is the manner of disposal of the dead and their grave goods that distinguish this site. Diverse and unusual modes of interment and unusually rich decorative ornaments hint at complex ri...
In recent years the state has enacted heritage legislation, and its universities have commenced teaching the archaeology of both Aboriginal and post 1788 Australians. Eyre’s expectations, developed while at Moorundie, near Roonka, now seem prophetic: ‘it will require the lapse of years, and the labours of many individuals, to detect and exhibit the...
Oct 14, 2020 · Devon Downs, at 198 Christians Road in Sunnydale, is on the market with a multimillion-dollar price tag. Pic: realestate.com.au. Prominent Australian businessman Mark Selway has put his rural South Australian acreage estate on the market again.
This paper outlines recent preliminary research conducted in relation to the Ngaut Ngaut (Devon Downs) petroglyphs. In particular, we reassess the original rock art sequence proposed for the site by Hale and Tindale and the manner in which their assertions and recordings have been used and interpreted by subsequent rock art researchers.
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To the south, the tribal territory ended at Ngautngaut (Devon Downs) rock shelter, the first area to be subject to archaeological excavation (by Norman Tindale and Herbert Hale of the South Australian Museum) and the first formal archaeological excavation undertaken in Australia. [3] [4] [5] Society.
Devon Downs is a homestead in Mid Murray Council, South Australia. Devon Downs is situated nearby to Nildottie. Mapcarta, the open map.
