Archaeology dig on Canberra's Springbank Island uncovers Indigenous artefacts

By Clare Colley
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:41pm, first published April 20 2016 - 5:22pm

A stone scraper uncovered on Springbank Island has reinforced Canberra's status as a traditional meeting place for Aboriginal people and suggests they occupied the area alongside early European settlers.

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