Excavated from the Riwi cave in Western Australia's southern Kimberley region in the early 90's, advanced dating techniques put the eight bone tools as between 35,000 and 45,000 years old.
This would make them some of the oldest artefacts to have been discovered in Australia.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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